But the drive letter is not reserved while a drive is not present and therefore reassigned to another drive if required. So when a drive is attached again it gets the same letter as before. Windows can save exactly one assignment per drive letter. The search goes upwards in the alphabet and starts at 'A' for floppy drives, at 'D' for CD-ROM drives and at 'C' for all other types. To get rid of the 'first free letter assignment' I wrote the USB Drive Letter Manager which works under Windows 2000, XP and higher.įor a drive which XP has no drive letter assignment stored it assigns the first available drive letter. When the USB has no USB serial then this happens again if it's attached to a different USB port. Plug'n play starts up a assigns the first available drive letter. In contrast a card reader stays attached and only the card is plugged and unplugged, so the drive letters stay.īecause it's drive and media in one, each time you plug a pen drive for the first time the Windows
Therefore the drive letter comes and goes with it.
Here are some problems and solutions:Īn USB pen drive (also called 'flash drive', 'memory stick' or in german 'USB-Stick') is drive and media in one. There are many possible problems with USB drives. This page is available in German language too
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