Can't Move Drives in Disk Management

[stjulian]

I have a few physical disk drives in my system and even more logical drives.

Disk 0 - Drive C (Basic, boot)
Disk 1 - Drives D & E (Basic, data 1 & 2)
Disk 2 - Drives F,G,H & I (Dynamic, Data 3,4,5 & 6)
Disk 3 - Drive O (Dynamic, Data 7)

Throw in a Zip Drive, couple of DVDs and a flash Key for good measure here
and there, and I have quite a few drives. All of these removeable media are
above C & I in drive letters. It's the way I work...

However, one day, for some reason, Disk 2 has gone and moved itself up one
drive letter for each partition (G, H, I, J) and there is no F drive shoved
in to explain.

I went to Disk Management to change the drive letters back (first G down to
F) and upon reboot, the drive is back at G. I have done this numerous times
since the G drive letter is occupied, I can't shift down the other letters
without reboot. But, after I do reboot, XP will have nothing of my decisions
and will put the drives back, almost mocking my will...

It's really messing me up here.

Currently, I am using both Nero 7 and Roxio Easy Media Creator 8. I tell you
this because they do sort of mess with things (CD-ROMs not showing up) as I
have read from other threads.

Also, same day, Norton AntiVirus 2006 seems to have gone on this Windows
Installer uninstall jag upon reboot. Relevant?

HELP!

Julian

 

[Squire]

Hi, StJulian,
You are really working your power supply to the maximum aren't you?
Start by moving your CD drives up to the tail end of the alphabet.
Move your Zip drive up there too.
Then reassign your hard drives in logical order, starting with the last
drive to make room for earlier ones.

 

[stjulian]

I've got a 500 Watt. And a set of those noise reducing headphones that they
use on the runway.

I'll give it a try tonight. BTW Disk 2 & 3 are on a SATA card and Disk 0, 1
and the first DVD is on the embedded ATA controller. The Zip and Flash are
on USB and the second DVD is on FireWire.

Anything else I should know?

Thanks for the help.

Julian

 

[Sharon F]

And a set of those noise reducing headphones that they
use on the runway.

 

[Squire]

Sounds like you are having fun with your computer,
You might disconnect the Zip drive until you complete the hard drive letters
so it will not interfere.