Yo, the same port is used: bcoz I never removed the connection

"Yves Leclerc" <yvesleclercNOSPAM@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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> On 25/12/2005 "Richard Urban" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>Then you are doing something wrong. I have my Sandisk Mini Cruiser thumb
>>drive as drive R: on this computer, using the exact method I instructed
>>you
>>to use.
>>
>>Maybe if you "told" us where your problem is - instead of saying it
>>doesn't
>>work.........................
>>
>
> The "suggested" method of assigning a drive letter to the removable drive
> works best if you always re-connect the drive/device back onto the "same"
> USB
> port. If you connect the drive to a different USB port, then because USB
> ports need to "renumerate" the device IDs, you may encounter that the
> drive
> letter changes. (I should know this because I spent October 2005 with
> this
> problem!)
>
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>
> Y.
>