[dba-Tech] Stupid USB stick

That used to happen to me with Iomega zip drives (RIP). Is it the 
peripheral that's dumb, or Winders?

P.

Arthur Fuller wrote:
> I have a notebook with a 250GB USB hard disk, which until this morning was
> known as drive e:\. I also have a memory stick, which I decided to insert.
> It bumped the big disk to drive f:\ and claimed drive e:\ for itself. This
> screwed up many things. Even after removing the stick, I cannot make the big
> disk reclaim its rightful place as drive e:\.
>
> Is there a way to force a device to a specific drive letter and keep it
> there? Ideally I would like the big disk to remain as drive e:\ at all times
> and the memory stick to become drive f:\.
>
> If it matters, I'm running Vista with a service pack.
>
> Thanks,
> Arthur
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