I used to plug my USB memory stick into my PC and it showed up as the E drive. Since adding a USB DVDRW drive I cannot use my memory stick. My work computer has an F: G: K: etc allocation to some network drives and although I get the connection bling-blong sound and the device shows up in the status bar for F: USB Mass Storage Device Safe Removal, it does NOT show up in My Computer as an extra drive hence it's useless. Is there a way to remove the existing F: drive which I've remapped anyway to the G: drive? I would have thought that XP would have defaulted to the next available letter for the USB stick but it does not seem to have done this. "Don't eat yellow snow" Martin

I see this problem all the time with memory sticks and network drives. For some reason, memory sticks ignore the network drive mappings and map to the same drive letter as the first network drive. My workaround has been to right click My Computer and click on Manage, then select Disk Management. Find your memory stick, right click and change the drive letter to something not in use. In my case, I found it convenient to reassign it to X:. Now whenever I plug it in, it always becomes my X: drive.

You're the man Kevin, everyone I've spoken to agrees that 'there IS way of doing it' but none could remember how. That works for me, thanks mate. "Don't eat yellow snow" Martin

The solution above is fineif you have one memory stick that you want to use with one PC. My problem is that I have a whole host of users armed with keys and want to plug them into each others laptops and see the information without having to reconfigure them (well, I don't want THEM reconfiguring them ;) ) Any ideas how to make the drive mapping fixed and push the dynamic drive mapping of the usb stick to the next, truly, available drive?!?!