I have come across an interesting problem... I have a virtual drive program which naturally allows for setting 1 to multiple virtual drives and assigns letters to its drives in sequence... I also have multiple USB ports and as we all know, they assign in the same manner. Here is the issue: USB Flash drives have taken the letter G and it cannot be used now for any other drives - BUT - Letter G is the next sequential assignment for other drives. Let me see if I can explain this -- Although my Virtual Drive program is always allowed 1 virtual drive, the V-Drive always takes drive letter H or higher instead of G (which is the next in line in the program) but the USB has taken that letter and will not release it for use. In the V-drive program, Letter G is showing as available for use but it will NOT change to G - Windows Disk Manager shows letter G as missing - hence in use by another program/drive/etc. I have tried setting "Virtual Drives = 0" then back to 1 drive... I have tried reassigning USB drive letters but all this does is make G disappear completely - as if it is locked for USB only... What I want is this... OS Drive = C: Secondary drive = D: Additional Partition = E: Internal Optical = F: Virtual Drive = G: USB's = H: and above I cannot figure this out... Why the V-program shows G as available but Windows says it is not... what is keeping it from being assigned... How can I get G: Released from being used as the USB assignment so it can be assigned to the Virtual Drive?
Go to diskmanager and assign it any available diver letter you want. Why don't you just set you virtual drive to v....
You should check out USB Drive Letter Manager (USBDLM). After a little configuration you should have all of your drives Lettered exactly how you want them. Mine currently goes: C: Windows 7 D: BD-RE drive E: Daemon Tools drive F: reserved for my primary flash drive, regardless of usb port G-J: reserved for specific usb ports K-N: reserved for SD slots O-V: other devices/free W: shared partition X: network drive Y: Windows XP partition Z: Ubuntu partition USBDLM can do more than just manage driver letters. Device notifications, autoruns and mounting of trucrypt volumes is also possible. I installed it a few years ago on my laptop and it is now on every computer I am responsible for. 5 stars.