After reading the forums and MS help I can easily use Disk Management to
change or assign any drive letter OTHER than A or B; Microsoft says that you
can however reassign Drive A or B if you have no floppy drives (I have
none...)

Using disk management, drive letters A & B just do not appear in the
selection list; I've tried through DiskPart, which gives the error message

"DiskPart could not assign the drive letter or mount point.
Make sure the drive letter or mount point is valid."

It's not a big issue; I could assign any other static letter to the external
drive. We have several USB flash drives which regularly get inserted and
removed with associated changes of drive letters, and the external hard drive
gets swapped to other machines fairly regularly for backups - so I was
wondering if there was any way I could use the currently unused 'A' or 'B'
drive letters.

XP Pro (sp3)
4GB ram
3x internal hard drives
2x DVD drives
1TB USB external hard drive

In diskmgmt.msc,L.click on the drive,go to actions,all,change drive
letter/path,
change,change to whats available.With my floppy "disabled",A: & B: still
are'nt available...

"littlepetel" wrote:

> After reading the forums and MS help I can easily use Disk Management to
> change or assign any drive letter OTHER than A or B; Microsoft says that you
> can however reassign Drive A or B if you have no floppy drives (I have
> none...)
>
> Using disk management, drive letters A & B just do not appear in the
> selection list; I've tried through DiskPart, which gives the error message
>
> "DiskPart could not assign the drive letter or mount point.
> Make sure the drive letter or mount point is valid."
>
> It's not a big issue; I could assign any other static letter to the external
> drive. We have several USB flash drives which regularly get inserted and
> removed with associated changes of drive letters, and the external hard drive
> gets swapped to other machines fairly regularly for backups - so I was
> wondering if there was any way I could use the currently unused 'A' or 'B'
> drive letters.
>
> XP Pro (sp3)
> 4GB ram
> 3x internal hard drives
> 2x DVD drives
> 1TB USB external hard drive

I take it that the answer is "No" to tthe question? I was wondering
the same thing.



On Mon, 6 Jul 2009 19:23:01 -0700, Andrew E. <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

> In diskmgmt.msc,L.click on the drive,go to actions,all,change drive
>letter/path,
> change,change to whats available.With my floppy "disabled",A: & B: still
> are'nt available...
>
>"littlepetel" wrote:
>
>> After reading the forums and MS help I can easily use Disk Management to
>> change or assign any drive letter OTHER than A or B; Microsoft says that you
>> can however reassign Drive A or B if you have no floppy drives (I have
>> none...)
>>
>> Using disk management, drive letters A & B just do not appear in the
>> selection list; I've tried through DiskPart, which gives the error message
>>
>> "DiskPart could not assign the drive letter or mount point.
>> Make sure the drive letter or mount point is valid."
>>
>> It's not a big issue; I could assign any other static letter to the external
>> drive. We have several USB flash drives which regularly get inserted and
>> removed with associated changes of drive letters, and the external hard drive
>> gets swapped to other machines fairly regularly for backups - so I was
>> wondering if there was any way I could use the currently unused 'A' or 'B'
>> drive letters.
>>
>> XP Pro (sp3)
>> 4GB ram
>> 3x internal hard drives
>> 2x DVD drives
>> 1TB USB external hard drive

Yes kraut, I think that answer was no... I'm wondering after trawling through
numerous forums, is it a bios setting disabling floppy drives; will check and
post back.
Peter
--
"There''s many a funny thing spoken in jest"


"kraut" wrote:

>
>
> I take it that the answer is "No" to tthe question? I was wondering
> the same thing.

No, not that, A & B were disabled in bios, I enabled drive A but it's still
not showing as an available drive letter in disk management or DiskPart.
Anyone else have any suggestions?
Thanks in advance
Peter
--
"There''s many a funny thing spoken in jest"