Is there anyway of reassigning the letter B (Do not have one installed) to a USB Thumb drive. I g=have a user that uses multiple thunb drives and can't see the third one he wants to use. Thanks Connie

HOW TO: Change Drive Letter Assignments in Windows XP

from my experience you can not reassign A or B. Not available in Disk Management as available drive letters. Maybe able to do it with the subst command but I don't see that as practical for you. Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.

That's what I thought at first until I review the MSKB suggested by Chuck 2. Quoted: Drive letters A and B are reserved for floppy disk drives. However, if your computer does not have a floppy disk drive, you can assign these letters to removable drives. How we can assign these letters to USB thumb drive is another matter. My opinion parallel wanderer in that you should allow Windows to assign the drive letters as it see fits (otherwise catastrophe may follow). i_XpUser

Actually, I've been able to assign a USB Flash Drive to B: using Microsoft's diskpart command-line utility. Incidentally, you can subst folders to B: as well as map network drives to B: My computer: WinXP Pro sp2, floppy drive, one optical drive, a virtual CD/DVD drive, and one HDD with two partitions. Here's the manual method (though this process could be automated with AutoIt): * Download and install diskpart.exe * Run diskpart.exe * Type the following commands as the DISKPART prompt (pressing enter after each line). You will need to change the number 4 to appropriate volume number! list volume select volume 4 assigne letter=b exit Here's a screenshot

Oops, I had a typo (extra letter e) in this line: assign letter=b Screenshot is correct at least :) Everything seems to work fine with B:

Interesting. My laptop has no floppy drive and disk management has no a or b listed for available drive letters if I wanted to assign those to my usb stick. My desktop has a floppy but again neither a or b is listed as available in disk management. Sometimes Microsoft lies... It will be interesting to see if after a reboot the usb stick actually KEEPS the b: assignment. Give a person a fish, they eat for a day. Suggest they internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.