After you change the drive letter, immediately reboot - without adding any
new drives in the interim.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

Quote from George Ankner:
If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

"John Gregory" <JohnGregory@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1FCF860E-F11C-43CF-A05A-BCE7CC1534F7@microsoft.com...
>I have a problem with Windows XP, I have changed the drive letters for my
>CD
> and DVD devices to V and W to avoid the constant re-lettering of these
> drives
> due to the addition of USB memory devices or flash memory cards.
>
> For some reason Windows XP seems to continually forget the letters that I
> have reassigned these drives, and it reassigns new letters to them again,
> to
> whatever configuration it thinks appropriate at that moment. The end
> result
> is that my CD-ROM and DVD-ROM always seemed to be labeled with a different
> drive letter. This moving target of changing drive letters is causing
> other
> programs to have problems since they never seem to know where to find the
> constantly moving optical drives.
>
> How do I make Windows keep the drive letters that I have assigned to these
> devices?
>