How do I get rid of drives F:, G: and H:?

My V6Va came premapped with those letters assigned to the picture card, MMC and Memory stick. My network needs to use those letter designations. They don't show up in Disk Manager so I can't assign them different letters. I can't figure out how to get rid of them.

Thanks.

 

Kind of a longshot, but I think that the tweakUI powertoy had something in there that could help.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

 

put the card in, then go to disk magagement. you should be able to change it then.

 

Like RadcomTxx said, just right click on My Computer and click "manage", then disk management", then you will see all your drives and just right-click and click "change drive letter", then change it to whatever you desire.

 

They don't show up at all in Disk Manager.

Plus, I don't have anything to stick in the drives. Dang.

 

what is it about your network that demands those drive letters? maybe we can come up with another solution.

 

Update the RICOH card reader driver to version 2.3 or later. It will only allocate a drive letter if there is a media card in the reader.

 

Can't you assign different drive letters to the network? If you can, it's preferred that you do. Assigning too low letters to network drives is a potential problem in WinXP.

I used to have a setup where G: and H: were assigned to network (and D:, E:, F: were the CD drives). Windows would get confused whenever I tried to connect any USB disks, and wouldn't assign drive letters to them, or would assign one of the network drive letters to them. I searched a bit and there was no real solution. So I just changed the network letters.

 

I can't remap the network drives because they are assigned to the whole office and the IT folk probably wouldn't want me mess with them.

 

Do you need to launch apps off the network drives that expect to be located at a certain path?

 

Are these network drives assigned locally or by a logon script? It is possible to re-map the drives on the local machine to a different drive letter and use them just as well. As such you could use a command-line style mapping for them with this syntax:

Code:

Net use [driver letter] [remote location] /persistant[yes/no] /user[username] [password]

That may help you if you know where and what username/password is used for mapping the drives.

 

I'm actually trying to run the script that maps about 10 drives. But, since two of the drive letters are already taken the script fails. I could manually map each drive and assign my own drive letters but I was trying to avoid that to the extent possible.