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Thread ID: 102124	2009-08-07 23:24:00	Why the heck did this happen?	Billy T (70)	Press F1

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799250	2009-08-07 23:24:00	Hi Team I'm having to balance work demands with residual issues from my computer crash, so I'm still working slowly through a list of odd problems. I'm now up to disk drive letter allocations. I had C as a stand-alone OS disk, D,E,F as data partitions on a second installed disk, G as cd/dvd rw, H & I as spares for USB cameras and USB sticks, J,K,L as storage partitions on a 20GB disk in a USB enclosure, and T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z as back-up and storage partitions on a 320GB Seagate external drive. The two external drives had their partition drive numbers formally allocated, and regardless of when they were connected, before or after boot, they always came up with those allocated drive letters. After reinstalling my OS, I found that the camera and two external drives have been allocated new fixed drive letters, which I didn't think could happen. I just rebooted with the camera and the two externals switched off, turned on the camera first and it took R instead of H, then connected the first disk, which took H,I,J, followed by the second which took K-Q. I thought that the drive/partition letter allocations were fixed in the drives themselves and since the camera was not allocated a drive letter it would take the first available letter which in the past was either H or I, depending on whether or not I had a USB stick connected. Why would this happen? At this point I am assuming that in fact the OS keeps/kept its own record of the drive letter allocations so a reinstall caused it to rewrite the disk records. It looks like I'll have to go back into an administrator facility and change them all back to what I want, but a pointer to that function would be appreciated, I remember I couldn't find it last time and somebody kindly pointed me in the right direction. Cheers Billy 8-{) :illogical	Billy T (70)
799251	2009-08-07 23:59:00	Right click on "my computer" and choose "Manage" than choose disk management. If you right-click on each partition than you can choose to reassign the drive letters.	ronyville (10611)
799252	2009-08-08 00:33:00	Would have been better if you removed everything (except hdds / cd's / dvd's) before you reinstalled, then connected them back after. I had a similar prob, I had to unplug the internal card reader, every time I reformatted with XP . As it kept on making one of the slots C. But it seems to be fine now, since I'm using Vista	Speedy Gonzales (78)
799253	2009-08-08 07:02:00	Follow Ronyville's instructions and you'll be fine. Do be warning that any programs that depend on that drive letter will be stuffed and you may have to reconfigure it.	Blam (54)
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