I tried choosing "add" on the unpopulated drive window that came up after right-clicking on of my drives in the Disk Management window.  Apparently you have to click "add" before the drive letter appears in the window for that drive.  I don't remember having to do that before.  

Also strange, is that for every drive, except my DVD writer, it asks what letter I want to assign (H is the next letter) without saying anywhere what the current letter is for that drive.  Except for the DVD drive - that one alone behaves as I remember, showing the current letter and asking if I want to change it.  

Anyone with XP, if you go to Disk Management, do you see drive letters beside the drive name?  If you right-click a drive name and choose "Change drive letters/paths" what happens - what do you see?

Thank you, 
AnnaSummers

Answer for Hugh:
I have a lot of things set up on my PC, within (and outside of) applications (including backup from/to profiles), that use hard defined paths to access my different drives, so I need the lettering to stay consistent, even if I switch boot drives.  TweakIU is a Microsoft "toy" isn't it?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Hugh Vandervoort 
To: [log in to unmask] 
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 1:36 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Assigning drive letters


Tweakui/MS Power Toys can disable drive letters if you have it installed.
I've never had a need to change any drive letter on any computer, so I'm
curious as to why you need to do this.


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