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Card reader with networked drives
I'm having a problem with two different media card readers. I'm
working in an environment with several networked drives, starting with H: The media card readers I'm trying to work with typically show up as four drives. In this environment, running XP, only the first two drives show up, as F: and G: There are MANY drives available, yet they are spread out through my networked drive letters. H, I, j, P, S, T, and W are used, but K through N, Q, R, U, V, X, Y, and Z are still available. Windows XP will not allocate a drive letter to the remaining two card slots in the card reader. If I disconnect from my networked H drive, then XP automatically maps H to the next slot in my card reader. Is there a fix for this? In Win2k, the drives would automatically allocate in between the networked drives. My card reader would take drives F, G, K, and N. In Windows XP, it seems that once Windows sees a networked drive, it cuts of drive letter allocation altogether. In the Disk Manager, the drives show up as being allocated to the existing networked drives, specifically the two drives I cannot see from the card reader are showing as drives H and I, but since they're already in use by the network, the networked drive takes precedence. Does anyone know a fix for this problem? I can manually map the drives to unused drives through the disk manager, but I have end users that aren't able to accomplish this, and they will be having the same issue. |
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That's the thing, though. Windows won't manage them itself in this
instance. It tries to map to an already mapped drive. My H drive is a networked drive, but when I go into the disk manager, it shows one of my card reader's drives as H. When I open the H drive, it's my networked drive. If I disconnect the networked H drive, the missing card reader drive instantly shows up as H in the removable storage section. Bob I wrote: Left to it's own devices Windows assigns Local drive letters A-Z and network drive letters Z-A. If you assign letters yourself, you get to manage them yourself. |
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Shazbat wrote:
That's the thing, though. Windows won't manage them itself in this instance. It tries to map to an already mapped drive. My H drive is a networked drive, but when I go into the disk manager, it shows one of my card reader's drives as H. When I open the H drive, it's my networked drive. If I disconnect the networked H drive, the missing card reader drive instantly shows up as H in the removable storage section. Bob I wrote: Left to it's own devices Windows assigns Local drive letters A-Z and network drive letters Z-A. If you assign letters yourself, you get to manage them yourself. Disconnect the network drives then run the disk management console and change the drive letters of the card readers. Start==Run==diskmgmt.msc -- Kerry MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User http://www.vistahelp.ca/forum/Forum.htm |
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