Re: Constantly Changing Drive Letters

Move all of the CD and DVD drives to the end of the alphabet. I use Y and Z
for my two drives. If you use a multicard reader, either stand alone or part
of a printer, do the same for these "drives". Yes, each port on the card
reader or the printer is considered a drive. Get them out of the way also.
Toward the end please!

Then when you plug in a USB device it will not trip over what is already
there.

Also, when using removable drives - make certain that you always connect it
to the same port.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"John Gregory" <JohnGregory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:24CFF55D-E149-46D0-8010-2576B6222010@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Thank you, but I tried that. The drive letters may, or may not stay fixed
> e.g. I get the desired drive letters working with just the CD/DVD and hard
> drives - boots ok, then I add a USB device and the CD & DVD change letters
> again. Another anomoly is that if I start the computer with a CD in the
> drive (Music CD), the drive letters change again.
>
> Very frustrating!
>
> "Richard Urban" wrote:
>
>> After you change the drive letter, immediately reboot - without adding
>> any
>> new drives in the interim.
>>
>> --
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Urban
>> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>>
>> Quote from George Ankner:
>> If you knew as much as you think you know,
>> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
>>
>> "John Gregory" <JohnGregory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>> news:1FCF860E-F11C-43CF-A05A-BCE7CC1534F7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> >I have a problem with Windows XP, I have changed the drive letters for
>> >my
>> >CD
>> > and DVD devices to V and W to avoid the constant re-lettering of these
>> > drives
>> > due to the addition of USB memory devices or flash memory cards.
>> >
>> > For some reason Windows XP seems to continually forget the letters that
>> > I
>> > have reassigned these drives, and it reassigns new letters to them
>> > again,
>> > to
>> > whatever configuration it thinks appropriate at that moment. The end
>> > result
>> > is that my CD-ROM and DVD-ROM always seemed to be labeled with a
>> > different
>> > drive letter. This moving target of changing drive letters is causing
>> > other
>> > programs to have problems since they never seem to know where to find
>> > the
>> > constantly moving optical drives.
>> >
>> > How do I make Windows keep the drive letters that I have assigned to
>> > these
>> > devices?
>> >
>>
>>
>>


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