How to reassign a USB mount point

The minute you plug in a USB device in your computer, Window operating system assigns a drive letter (K:, J:, etc.) to the drive. Sometimes, the assigned drive letter conflicts with another network drive such as share drive. As a result, your USB is not visible or accesible by the Windows explorer.

To fix this problem, run diskmgmt.msc utility, find the drive in question and change its drive letter to something else that would not conflict with visible drives.

• Plug-in your USB device.
  
• On Windows desktop, click on Start -> run
• Type in diskmgmt.msc and click OK to bring up the Disk Manager:

• Find the USB removable media in the list you wish to change the drive letter for.
• Right-click on the drive entry, select Change drive letter/path, and change the drive letter.
• Unplug your USB device.
• Reboot the machine, plug the USB device back in and verify that it appears in the Windows Explorer and that device is accessible.