USB drive displayed as Local Disk in My Computer

When a USB storage device is connected it is installed as a USB drive but
displayed in My Computer as a "Local Disk" rather then Removable Storage.

Have removed and reinstalled from Device Mgr., Formated,

If Drive letter is reassigned on one PC it assigns the same Drive letter to
a 2nd PC.

Nothing in Event Viewer
Drive Properties Display
Type: Disk Drives
Manuf: (Standard disk drives)
Location: Location 0
Status: This device is working properly

Sam wrote:
> When a USB storage device is connected it is installed as a USB drive but
> displayed in My Computer as a "Local Disk" rather then Removable Storage.
>
> Have removed and reinstalled from Device Mgr., Formated,
>
> If Drive letter is reassigned on one PC it assigns the same Drive letter to
> a 2nd PC.
>
> Nothing in Event Viewer
> Drive Properties Display
> Type: Disk Drives
> Manuf: (Standard disk drives)
> Location: Location 0
> Status: This device is working properly

That's normal behaviour. Under Windows drives have a
'drive type' which leads to some differences:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbstick_e.html

USB drives can have a drive type DRIVE_REMOVABLE or drive
DRIVE_FIXED. USB CD-ROMs have (surprisingly) DRIVE_CDROM...

USB harddrives usually have DRIVE_FIXED and the Explorer shows
them as 'Local Disk', USB flash drives usually have DRIVE_REMOVABLE
and are shown as 'Removable Drive'.

DRIVE_REMOVABLE means that a drive has a removable media. It does
not mean that the drive is removable. So, DRIVE_REMOVABLE is not
correct for a normal USB flash drive because they have no removable
media. The Explorer shows the item 'Eject' in these drive's context
menu even there is nothing to eject...


Uwe