drive letters in XP

[noisedude]

and another seemingly straightforward but frustratingly not so question:

i sometimes have a second hard drive in my main machine, when it's in i want it to be drive D and my optical drives to shift down one. at the moment whenever i put a second one in it gets assigned F which is well annoying. how do i change it?

[rpertusio]

You can easily change the drive letters by using the built-in Disk Management mmc snap-in. You can access it through Computer Management, or directly by:
Start Menu -> Run... -> diskmgmt.msc

In the bottom half of the window, right-click on the CD device name (on the bottom left) and choose "Change drive letters and paths...", choose the drive you want to change, and click [change...]

You will need to re-assign the CD device (currently D: ) to a new letter before you can assign the hard drive to "D:"

I'm not certain that the hard drive will remain "D:" on next boot. I know that an 'always connected' hard drive/cd-rom will keep the same letters between reboots.

- rp