Mapped drive letters get re used when plugging in USB Thumb Drive

Assume PC layout as follows:

C: Hard Drive
D: CDROM
E: not used
F: Mapped to a network share

Plug in a USB device with 2 partitions, one CDROM with autorun files. 2nd
partition is R/W with application.

The 2nd Partition on the USB device will use the same F: drive as the
network share.

This was to be fixed in Vista, same bug appears in Win2K and XP SP2

Hmm... just change the mapped network drive to something else?

--
» More information here: www.vistabase.co.uk
--
Zack Whittaker
» ZackNET Enterprises: www.zacknet.co.uk
» MSBLOG Technology News: www.msblog.org
» This mailing is provided "as is" with no warranties, and confers no
rights. All opinions expressed are those of myself unless stated so, and not
of my employer, best friend, Ghandi, my mother or my cat. Glad we cleared
that up!

--: Original message follows :--
"mhastings" <> wrote in message
news:F0203219-CB2E-4CC6-AF24-...
> Assume PC layout as follows:
>
> C: Hard Drive
> D: CDROM
> E: not used
> F: Mapped to a network share
>
> Plug in a USB device with 2 partitions, one CDROM with autorun files. 2nd
> partition is R/W with application.
>
> The 2nd Partition on the USB device will use the same F: drive as the
> network share.
>
> This was to be fixed in Vista, same bug appears in Win2K and XP SP2
>