sure does. When you start your logon scripts to take letters from the top "F" "G" etc. it is a real pain. It also does this with mp3 players... so far anything that is flash media and plug and play using usb. hot swapable?

A simple change to the logon scripts will fix it... but it can be a pain because most people know their mapped drives as

"I can't get to my "F" drive." Or something of that sort.

In my case, I just relettered my CDROMs, freeing two physical drive letters at the beginning of top (D,F). It won't accept "B", skips right over that one.

Here is the weird part:

I have a sony micro vault usb drive.

It mounts the flash drive and then you have to execute a program to get to the password/encrypted part of the drive. It uses yet another drive letter for this. But, this will pull from the next drive letter that is not in use (physical or virtual). It seems to look first, unlike windows xp.

For giggles, I only left one physical drive letter available for the usb drive and mapped all the rest to different virtual drives. It didn't map itself at all after that. I had to unmap a virtual drive and then execute/unlock the password protected area to get it to map again.

Fun stuff! I have only tried this on XP Pro Sp1 so far...