Thanks Art.  That's how mine used to look.  Now the letters in parentheses are missing.  If I right-click a drive name and select "Change..letter" I get an EMPTY window with the only button choice bein "Add".   If I click "Add" THEN I get a window that says I can change the drive letter, but I'm never told what the current drive letter is
- EVER - nowhere in "Disk Management".   The empty "Add" window seems superfluous - do you get that as well?

Also, in the bottom section, the CD Rom drive shows its letter in parenthesis, but Disk 0 and Disk 1 say "Basic", the size in GB, and "Online".  It just seems strange all over, not like it used to.  When I change a drive letter, I think the letter flashes momentarily beside the Volume name, but quickly vanishes.  

I found a clip of the DiskMgmt window portion from a year ago and the drive letters don't show even back then.  I haven't needed to mess with it once I got it set, I guess, until now - and now the drive letters will need to be set again when install a fresh system on the new harddrive (I want to still use many of my app profiles in which I have referenced drive letter paths).

Any ideas?    Thanks...  --AnnaSummers

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Art Heimsoth 
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Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 10:20 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Dual Booting


When I use Disk Management on my XP Pro system, each drive is
listed in the top right section with the drive letter shown in parenthesis 
with the drive lable under the Volume column.  If I right click on any
of the drives, I am allowed to change any drive letter or path except
for the boot or system drive - trying to do that one gives a popup error
stating "Windows cannot modify the drive letter of your system volume
or boot volume."
>
> Could you check yours (Admin Tools  - Computer Management - Disk
> Management) (then either View - Drive Paths OR Action - All Tasks -
> Change Drive Letters & Paths; OR right-click a drive and choose
> "Change Drive Letters & Paths") and see if your Drive/Letter/Path
> window fails to populate too?  Or maybe someone with XP?
>
> Thanks,
> AnnaSummers
>

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