Drive letters - disk disappears...!

[roop]

I have recently bought one of those Western Digital MyBook Pro things. It's a 500GB external HDD that connects up by Firewire/Firewire800/USB2. I have it hooked into my XP system via USB2 where it shows as drive F: Problem is that when I plug in my 468-in-1 USB card reader, the MyBook is sometimes (but not always) unceremoniously punted from the drive list to be replaced by F: G: H and I: drives on the card reader. How can I check whether my drives are limited to I: at most...? (I know Windows can be pushed to do AA: AB: AC: if you really try. Just wondered if there was an XP setting somewhere).

TIA,

Roop

[GregE240]

Why not go into Disk Management and manually assign an unused drive letter? Like the W drive?

Then it will always fire up as W.

[roop]

Hmm. Good idea. I'll have a pop at that.

GregE240 said:

Why not go into Disk Management and manually assign an unused drive letter? Like the W drive?

Then it will always fire up as W.