USB Pen Drive Looses Drive Letter Until Reboot

[NeuronicPCGuy]

I recently purchased a 128MB USB Pen Drive, got a great deal through Ebay. No matter if I use this device on my laptop or on my desktop the first time I plug it in the computers identify the unit and assign it a drive letter. However after removing the pen drive and then connecting it back to the PCs then my Desktop will detect it, however it will not assign a drive letter to it again, my laptop will both detect and reasign a drive letter, and yes I click on the safely remove system bar icon and then unplug the unit after the PC tells me its safe to remove it. Here is my laptop and desktop specs
Laptop
Compaq
AMD Duron 1.1Ghz
256MB Ram
20Gig HD
Windows XP Home (No Updates)

Desktop
Home Build
PCChips 830L Mobo (w/ SIS735, I think)
AMD Ahtlon XP 1700+ (1.47GHz)
512MB SDRAM PC133
40Gig HD (partitioned into 10, and 30)
Nvidia Gforce2 MX400 w/32MB
Soundblaster Live! 5.1
Pynacle Studio DC10+
Windows XP Pro
oh yea USB 1.1 on both desktop and laptop

Please offer any info you might have.

Thanks
NeuronicPCGuy

I can't waite to have Patience!!!!

 

[marneus]

dunno yet, havent seen this on Win2000 PC, will haveta try it on my Xp PX & see (well might be some time as I RMA'd my pendrive this week...)

Hmmm, wonder if I can get a valid page fault ???
these invalid ones are far too commonplace...