George, Thanks, but my machine does not seem to hav ethe performance and maintenance option. In computer management I do not have the disk management option either. I'll have another look later when the brain is a little refreshed! Mark Threadgold The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act... -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of George Bell Sent: 18 April 2008 09:38 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Drive letter assignment Hi Mark, This MS Knowledge Base Article may help you. How to change drive letter assignments in Windows XP http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307844 George. -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark Threadgold Sent: 18 April 2008 09:33 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Drive letter assignment Peter, Thanks, but this is not the problem. I find the drives in exactly the same way as yourself in explorer. Rather the Second Copy application I use to back up my files from the laptop to the drives uses the drive letter assigned to the drive in its profile. Therefore if I now try to copy the fifty gigs of information on one of the hard drives to the other one, it is now trying to copy it to a 1 gig pen drive. If I cannot force the drive letters back wo the way they were I am going to have to re jig the Second Copy profiles every time I want to use it. This is impractical as some of the backups are done by the scheduler automatically. Cheers, Mark Threadgold The probability of being watched is directly proportional to the stupidity of your act... -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Peter Logue Sent: 18 April 2008 10:13 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] Re: Drive letter assignment Hi Mark, If its any help, I have re-named my removable drives, so that in locating them I do not have to rely on a drive letter. After opeing Windows Explorer my search can be as easy as hitting the letter F for - Fred. Or - George in which case you would type G. I disregard the actual drive letter as my first letter search does the job. I have 4 such drives and this works well. Peter Logue Skype contact: clydeview2008 -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark Threadgold Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 7:55 AM To: accessuk list Subject: [access-uk] Drive letter assignment How do you change the drive letter assignment of a removable drive, please? I have a pair of WD Passport external hard drives on my Toshiba laptop which have had their drive letters of E and F and these have been remembered by the machine when they have been disconnected. Today I plugged in a USB pen drive and it took the drive letter E forcing the first of the hard drives to use G when it was plugged back in. Previously it did not change the drive letter assignment when plugged in and removed in this manner and now my backup utility is messed up as the drives set in it are no longer correct. How do I force the hard drive assignment back to E so it picks up the pen drive on G again please? 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