I recently installed a mutiformat media card reader. Now when I boot the computer Windows assigns four drive letters to the device (1 for each card type). Initially, a couple of the drive letters conflicted with a couple of mapped network drives. After I disconnected the mapped drives that conflicted everything was fine. My problem is that I really want to use those drive letters for my network drives (L for Library and M for Music). However, I cannot find a way to change the drive letters assigned to the flash drives. Anyone have any ideas on how I might do this. Thanks in advance for your help. Also, Windows apparently skips a drive letter after the last optical before assigning a drive letter to the first flash drive. Not sure why. My current drive assignments are as follows: A: Floppy B: Zip C: HD 1, Partition 1 D: HD 1, Partition 2 E: HD 2, Partition 1 F: HD 2, Partition 2 G: DVD ROM H: CD Burner I: DVD Burner J: No Drive K: Compact Flash Drive L: SmartMedia Drive M: MemoryStick Drive N: Secure Digital Drive

I only have one flash drive, but this seems to work: 1) Plug in flash drive 2) Start, Run diskmgmt.msc 3) Right-click the flash drive in the list that appears, "Change drive letter and paths" 4) Click the "Change" button, choose letter, OK, OK 5) Close Disk Management! 6) Remove flash drive 7) Repeat steps 1 - 6 with each device Note: I'm not sure how specific Windows is about identifying external flash drives. (Do otherwise identical flash drives have unique serial numbers that Windows reads?) If you purchase a new memoryStick, Windows *might* treat it as a new device and use some unwanted default letter assignment until you change the letter with the above process. Good Luck

Thanks CyberSlug, that did the trick. I had check the disk management tool but I accessed it differently (right click My Computer and select manage). That interface is gives many more options for system management. From that screen, I tried right clicking the drives in the tree-view in the left pane (which did not work) and not in the main window. Thanks again.