Driver Letter Assignments wont stick in Vista

In Windows XP, Drive D was my Western Digital My Book 250gb USB 2.0 Hard
Drive. Drive E was my DVD/CDRW Drive. After a successful Upgrade, The two are
swapped.

D is the dvd/cdrw drive and E: is the USB Hard Drive.

This caused programs to malfunction after the upgrade!

I used the Disk Managment Console to switch them back. Okay fine. It worked
for a couple of reboots. Then magically out of nowhere the problem returned.
The drives were swapped back were they originally were after the upgrade.
Once again, I had to do the stupid disk managment trick.

Whats up here? Why isnt the changes sticking. This is becoming problematic.
I think I will leave my computer on until this little quirk got fixed. Will
not reboot unless its absolutely neccesary.

it might be that the usb drive was not turned on when you rebooted.
how about changing the drive letter of the cd/dvd to "Z".
this would take it out of the way so on reboot/plug in the usb drive would be the "D".



mikeyhsd@comcast.net



"IceHockeyJason" <IceHockeyJason@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:C1CD65E6-2646-410D-A7AA-87BDC0871370@microsoft.com...
In Windows XP, Drive D was my Western Digital My Book 250gb USB 2.0 Hard
Drive. Drive E was my DVD/CDRW Drive. After a successful Upgrade, The two are
swapped.

D is the dvd/cdrw drive and E: is the USB Hard Drive.

This caused programs to malfunction after the upgrade!

I used the Disk Managment Console to switch them back. Okay fine. It worked
for a couple of reboots. Then magically out of nowhere the problem returned.
The drives were swapped back were they originally were after the upgrade.
Once again, I had to do the stupid disk managment trick.

Whats up here? Why isnt the changes sticking. This is becoming problematic.
I think I will leave my computer on until this little quirk got fixed. Will
not reboot unless its absolutely neccesary.