Thank you, but I tried that. The drive letters may, or may not stay fixed
e.g. I get the desired drive letters working with just the CD/DVD and hard
drives - boots ok, then I add a USB device and the CD & DVD change letters
again. Another anomoly is that if I start the computer with a CD in the
drive (Music CD), the drive letters change again.

Very frustrating!

"Richard Urban" wrote:

> 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?
> >
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