XP help - hard drive letters...

[Rerednaw]

I have a removeable USB hard drive I leave plugged in most of the time (except when I travel).

It always mapped to E. (C was hard drive, D was CD/DVD).

Now for some reason windows maps it to I. There are no E F G or H drives.

1) How do I reset it?

2) Sometimes I plug in a media card reader. Whenever I do that XP immediately creates 3 separate drive letters for the same device. What causes that and how do I stop it?

Thanks.

XP Home, SP2. On a Dell Inspiron 9300 if that matters.

 

[MustISO]

Memory card readers will generally create multiple drive letters for each available slot. Mine always create M,N,O,P when I plug it in.

As far as the USB drive, go into disk management and change the drive letter. Not sure if it will stay that way forever but it may.

 

[VirtualLarry]

You have the opposite problem with drive letters. Windows assigns non-contiguous drive letters. My problem is that it assigns OVERLAPPING drive letters, for USB removable HDs and network drives.