I have two 400 GB external HD's (with four partitions), and from within XP's Disk Management I assigned them the letters Q,R,S and T. I assigned my single partition 120 GB external drives the letter U.

These drives have stuck to the assigned letters. In other words, plug in one 120 GB drive and it comes up as "U", even though letters "QRST" are available.

I assigned two of my pocket flash drives as "V", and they stick to that letter, even if letters "QRSTU" are available.

Of course, plug in more than one of the same device, and the second one will have to use later letters.

I haven't tried to assign a letter in Disk Management to an external optical drive (I have one Plextor CD-RW and one Sony DVD±RW, for external drives, both mostly used with my laptop...).

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Athlon 1.1 - 768 MB RAM = 98SE & XP Home

Athlon 3000+ 64 - 1024 MB RAM = 98SE (@768 MB RAM) & XP Pro

IBM ThinkPad PIII 933 - 384 MB RAM = 98SE & XP Pro SP2

Windows 2000 Server in the basement

Written in response to: re: External HD drive letters automatically changed (geek9pm: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 at 12:10 pm) Responses to this message: re: External HD drive letters automatically changed (Jacob6601: Thursday, August 30, 2007 at 3:50 am) External HD Volume Labels (DNA: Thursday, August 30, 2007 at 5:42 pm)

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