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Since XP Network and Subst drives are no more global, they exist in the context of the user who created them only. In the context System where the Mount Manager assigns drive letters such drives are not visible offhand. Therefore they are not considered by XP. If there is a network drive on the first available local letter then XP assigns it again to a new external drive. The external drive is invisible and unaccessible then until its drive letter is changed in the Disk Management right click My Computer Manage Disk management or by my commandline tool Re. Mount. But for each new drive you have to change the drive letter again and its no solution to assign a letter again to a different external drive because XP can save exactly one assignment per letter. So change the network drives letter to a higher one to get the lower ones available for external drives. Or let my USB Drive Letter Manager change the letters of USB drives for you. Microsoft is aware of this and calls it. Meanwhile a hotfix is available Windows. XP KB2. 97. 69. 4 x. ENU. exe and the XP Service Pack 3 fixes the problem too. What the SP3 did not fix is this scenario Letters C D used for local drives, E for a USB drive. Remove the USB drive, create a network drive at E and reattach the the USB drive again. XP with SP3 will assign E anyway, the USB drive is hidden. Another hotfix shall fix this for XP too http support. This is fixed since Vista. But even Vista and Windows 7 assign a network letter to a new local drive if there is no other one available. In general the problem persists when an external drive is attached before the user logs on. The mapping of the network drives fails when their drive letter is in use. USBDLM fixes this when configured appropriately. New external drive not partitioned. New external drives are often unformatted and unpartitioned. Partitioning can be done in the Windows Disk Management right click My Computer Manage Disk management or. Windows Server 2. Windows Server Enterprise and Data. Center Edition do not assign drive letters to new fixed drives USB and Firewire disks are usually fixed. This is up to the administrator because otherwise SAN Storage Area Network drives might be mounted accidentally. This feature is called Auto. Mount and can be enabled by means of the Disk. Part tool Open a commandprompt, enter diskpart, on the Disk. Part prompt enter automount to see the current state or automount enable to enable it. Or install my USB Drive Letter Manager which can assign a drive letter for USB and firewire harddisks without affecting other types of storage devices. Drive encrypted. Some flash drives and external harddrives come with an encryption software. Usually you have the option to split the drive into an unencrypted and an encrypted part. The unencrypted part appears on all computers but the encrypted part becomes visible andor accessible after you entered a password when the encryption software asks for. But of course this happens only when this software is installed on the computer you attach the drive to. Daemon Tools V4. There are reports that a more or less failed installation of the Daemon Tools V4 makes XP fail assigning drive letters to new drives. Its suggested then to uninstall the tools and to delete some files in System. Drivers sptd. sys, secdrv. NNNN. sys NNNN numbers. Here are some more information. Madness Project Nexus Hacked 2 there. For the deinstallation there is. Recently there are no more reports about this issue, the problem seems to be fixed. Filter drivers are used to manipulate the communication between soft and hardware. They are installed for instance by CD burning software device class CDROM, by anti virus software device classes DISK, CDROM and FLOPPY or by virtualization software as VMware for making USB devices availlable in the virtual machines device class USB. 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Disable them all, reboot and check if the problem is gone again. If yes, then enable them one by one reboot each time until the problem is back again. The you have the culprit. If deactivating services doesnt help, try it with drivers. Start Run, devmgmt. View Show hidden devices. Open in the device tree Non Plug and Play Drivers. Here you see lots of items, many from Microsoft and others. You can deactivate a driver by right clicking it an select Deactivate. If you are not sure about a driver, just enter its name at Google and you will see.