can I permanently assign a drive letter to my CDROM drive? I lose it...

[bnus440]

How do I keep my CDROM drive from losing its
drive letter? Sometimes it's (F and sometimes I lose it I guess when
I
plug in other devices like digital camera or flash drive or voice
recorder.
My DVD drive is always present on (E. But I lose the CDROM drive.
My
flash drive sometimes becomes (F. I have only recently learned I can
scan
for hardware changes, and I can get my CDROM drive back, perhaps to
(L. I
used to think I had to re-boot in case I wanted to burn a CD. Can I
permanently assign (F to the CDROM drive? Thanks much, Bob

 

[Rock]

How do I keep my CDROM drive from losing its
drive letter? Sometimes it's (F and sometimes I lose it I guess when
I
plug in other devices like digital camera or flash drive or voice
recorder.
My DVD drive is always present on (E. But I lose the CDROM drive.
My
flash drive sometimes becomes (F. I have only recently learned I can
scan
for hardware changes, and I can get my CDROM drive back, perhaps to
(L. I
used to think I had to re-boot in case I wanted to burn a CD. Can I
permanently assign (F to the CDROM drive? Thanks much, Bob

Assign the CD and DVD drives to higher drive letters such as Y or Z. Leave
the lower letters for removable devices. Insert a CD in the drive, right
click My Computer | Manage | Disk Management. In the right pane right click
the CD drive, and changes it's drive letter.