I'm working on a WindowsXP home laptop for a friend.

When I connect a USB device(e.g. Kodak camera or USB disk), the device is detected and installed, but is not assigned a drive letter. Using the disk manager I can manually assign it a drive letter, and then I can view the drive in explorer. In addition to being a pain in my butt, I don't want my friend to have to do this every time she attaches a USB device.

Anyone experienced this before? All help appreciated.