On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 11:30 +0000, Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk wrote:
There was a downloadable utility called "Letter Assigner" which allowed you to give a partition a letter-name which was not already in use. So putting right the above mangled situation involved:
Yeh that isn't really an issue with NT/2000/XP/Vista
You can reassign drive letters using the disk management plugin of the management console. Right click My Computer, Select "Manage", Go to disk manglement, right click the volumes with the wrong letters assigned and select "change drive letters and paths"
This is quite a frequent fix for a windows bug where you have network drives in the next letter order...i.e. your Primary drive is C: and you have a CD Rom as D: and a mapped network drive as E:. Then if you plug in USB mass storage (say a camera, usb keydrive or external disk) it tries to assign E: (thinking it is the next letter in order not taking into account the network drive)..this fails because E: is in use and you can't access your USB drive So you have to go into disk manglement and reassign it manually.
For this reason alone it is best practice to map network drives at the bottom of the alphabet and not the top..but plenty of people ignore that. Of course once it has been done that way and software configured to look for the network drive on E: and recent documents links, shortcuts etc are all pointing to E: it is hard to reverse.
and they say Linux isn't ready for the desktop !