change drive letters in XP Pro?

[stimpleton]

does anybody know how to this as all my drives are allocated by xp pro and greyed out so i cant change them

[shadow_ir]

1. Click the start button
2. Go into Administrative tools (either in the start button or in "All Programs"
3. From Administrative Tools, go into "Computer Management"
4. In "Computer Management", click on "Disk Management" under "Storage" from the left menu
5. You should see a window from the lower right hand corner open (it shows all the hard disk drives and cd-rom drives)
6. To change...
...hard drive, click on the hard disk with a blue horizonal bar, the box should be shaded; next right click that box that you desire to change the letter then click on "Change Letter Drive and Path"
...cd-rom drive, click on the box that you desire the drive letter; next right click that box that you desire to change the letter then click on "Change Letter Drive and Path"
7. click the "change..." button
8. from the "assign the following drive letter", select the letter you want to assign to the hard drive or the cd-rom drive
9. click ok
10. click ok

[stimpleton]

thanks shadow_ir
i found administrative tools in the control panel. all worked exactly as you said. GREAT
thanks again