"Ken_B" <kb3XXX@usa.com> wrote in message
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> In Explore, my XP installation has been showing the primary master hard
> drive as C: and the slave as F:, the secondary master (DVD-RAM) as D: and
> the secondary slave (DVD-RW) as E:
>
> Firstly, I don't understand why is shows the primary slave as F: instead
of
> D: as all other OS's I've used.
>
> Today I decided I wanted to reverse the other two drives, which I did,
> making the DVD-RW secondary master and the DVD-RAM slave. (I did remember
to
> correct the jumper settings, by the way.)
>
> But in Explore, the two drives I swapped are still showing the same drive
> letters they had before I changed them: secondary master as E: and slave
as
> D: - this seems wierd. What's going on here?
>
> Note: I noticed Nero Burning ROM has them in the right order - DVD-RW as
> secondary 0 drive and DVD-RAM as secondary 1 drive. Same on the bootup
> screen.
>
> I know how to re-assign drive letters in XP - should I just do that, or is
> there some reason they are listed as they are in Explore?
>
> Any suggestions muchly appreciated, and Happy Thanksgiving.

Drive letter assignment is not OS-dependent as you suggest.
It depends on the order in which the various devices are
installed.

Your Explorer drive letters adjust themselves immediately after
you make a change in the disk manager. If they don't then I
recommend a reboot. How exactly did you actually change them?
next reboot. In most cases they