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Mapped and flash drives on laptops

A laptop user has a drive mapped to F when logged into the network. When she's not logged into the network and uses a flash drive, it is mapped as drive F. The next time she logs into the network, F is unavailable until I go into drive management and change its drive letter - or change the network drive to F. Is there a way to "reserve" F so flash drives will map to G or above?
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Thanks to you all. I just remoted in to the user's laptop and changed the card reader to M and the DVD drive to D. Hopefully, flash drives will install as E. F is persistently mapped. The user is in another town, travels frequently, and probably won't be back to the office with the docking station until Friday. I'll report back. Appreciate your help.
No worries, let us know if you need more ideas!
Just a note that the user has not returned to the office. We also added the net delete drive command in the login script right before the line that maps it. Surely she won't have this problem again. Will let you know as soon as I hear.
User is still detained away from office. Should know something by the end of the week.
Thanks to all who responded.