Mapping hard drives?

[Bobbie Leslie]

I built up a machine with a couple of 40gig hard drives when that was
the average and later on added a 120gig drive for ripping songs and
movies to. The problem is I have several USB devices and they each
take a drive number whether plugged in or not so my 120gig drive came
out to be drive O, as in the alphabet. The original hard drives were
partitioned into two 20gig drives C:, D:, E: and F:. Before Windows XP
came out I had WindowsME on the C: drive and just left it there and
installed XP to drive E:. Now, on occasion, drive O will show up under
My Computer and sometimes it won't. I think the problem is because the
first two drives are SATA and the 120gig drive is not. How can I get
that sucker mapped or whatever so I can see it and use it all the
time. One thought is I'd love to transfer WindowsXP to it and map it
as drive E:. Any help appreciated.
Bob

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I built up a machine with a couple of 40gig hard drives when that was
the average and later on added a 120gig drive for ripping songs and
movies to. The problem is I have several USB devices and they each
take a drive number whether plugged in or not so my 120gig drive came
out to be drive O, as in the alphabet. The original hard drives were
partitioned into two 20gig drives C:, D:, E: and F:. Before Windows XP
came out I had WindowsME on the C: drive and just left it there and
installed XP to drive E:. Now, on occasion, drive O will show up under
My Computer and sometimes it won't. I think the problem is because the
first two drives are SATA and the 120gig drive is not. How can I get
that sucker mapped or whatever so I can see it and use it all the
time. One thought is I'd love to transfer WindowsXP to it and map it
as drive E:. Any help appreciated.
Bob

Run regedit.exe and navigate to HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices.
Now delete all values such as \DosDevices\X: where X: is a drive
letter higher than C:.

Reboot your machine without any USB devices. Your 120 GByte
hard disk will now be drive D: and it will remain on this letter even
when plugging in USB devices.