assigning drive letters

[Tom Barkas]

In Win98, when I plug in my USB drive, it is assigned a letter after
the fixed hard drives and I have the CD-ROM fixed as Z. When I plug it
into Win2000 on a computer with a single hard drive partitioned as
C-E, it inserts itself as drive D and shifts everything else along.
Most of the programmes which are on D seem to cope with this, but (a)
is this meant to happen, (b) is there a way of assigning fixed letters
to external drives and the CD-ROM drive in Win2000?

 

[John Thow]

In Win98, when I plug in my USB drive, it is assigned a letter after
the fixed hard drives and I have the CD-ROM fixed as Z. When I plug it
into Win2000 on a computer with a single hard drive partitioned as
C-E, it inserts itself as drive D and shifts everything else along.
Most of the programmes which are on D seem to cope with this, but (a)
is this meant to happen, (b) is there a way of assigning fixed letters
to external drives and the CD-ROM drive in Win2000?

Administrative Tools; Computer Management; Storage; Disk Management;
<Select Drive>; Right Click; Change Drive Letter & Path.
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