Drive Letter(s) disappered

[Dale]

My grandson got on our computer yesterday and I noticed
today that when I open windows explorer the drive letters
are no longer displayed. For example 3 1/2 Floppy had an
(A displayed and c drive was displayed as: pet (C ,
now it is displayed as: pet. How do I turn on the letter
display?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Stuart]

This worked for me (thanks to Kelly) Change to Details view, then, while
holding down shift, switch back to Thumbnail View

 

[Guest]

Great. Thanks Stuart and Kelly.

-----Original Message-----
This worked for me (thanks to Kelly) Change to Details view, then, while
holding down shift, switch back to Thumbnail View

 

[Alex Nichol]

My grandson got on our computer yesterday and I noticed
today that when I open windows explorer the drive letters
are no longer displayed. For example 3 1/2 Floppy had an
(A displayed and c drive was displayed as: pet (C ,
now it is displayed as: pet. How do I turn on the letter
display?

Either and perhaps safer, use
Start - All Programs - Accessories - System Tools - System Restore
and go back to a restore point made before grandson got at the machine -
this will unwind anything else, too, that you may not have discovered
and is one of the main uses of System Restore

Or for the specific point, Use TweakUI - one of the XP Powertoys from
(if you have installed XP SP1)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

If you have not installed SP1, the earlier version can be found at
http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/TweakUiPowertoySetup.exe

Once installed you will find it in Start - All Programs - Powertoys for
Windows XP

Its My Computer - Drive letters page has a selector for this behaviour