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USB/Mapped drive conflict resolved with Windows XP SP3

2008-06-06 by Jason

The conflict between USB drives and mapped drives seems to have been resolved with XP’s Service Pack 3. Previously, Windows would only assign USB drives to letters D-H. If these letters were already assigned to Mapped Network Drives the USB drive would not show up until a different drive letter was automatically assigned to it. Using a third-party software was the previous solution and still useful for other versions of Windows.

This would require a tool like the USB Drive Letter Manager (previously written about here) to resolve the problem. But now after SP3, the USB drives are being assigned up to letter M and beyond.

The hotfix and causing problem is described in detail here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/297694/

List of all fixes in Windows XP SP3

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