Drive Letter Changing

[sutom]

Hi, sorry if this is already answered, I did a search and couldn't find a solution.
I just got a new WD My Book Essential HDD, and wondered if I could swap some drive letters around. Currently I have:

A: Floppy
C: SYSTEM (WinXP installed here)(SATA)
D: DATA (SATA)
E: DVD-RW Drive
F: DATA 2 (SATA)
G: My Book (USB)

Plus other removable things like my printer, scanner, iPod, phone, USB stick.

- I know I can't use B: or change the System drive, but can I for example make the DVD-RW as D: and "DATA" as E:?
- If I can make the DVD-RW D:, will my current D: "DATA" drive get wiped?
- And finally, will my removable things just take the letters H: onwards if I just plug them in? Will they remember what letter they are or will they just take the next free one?

I know about how to change the drives in disk management but that's about it. Thanks for any help!

 

[helmutcheese]

You can change driver letters of any drive napart from your Windows drive, if is C its C for keeps, you could ruin everythig if you tried to change with use of a APP.

You can in Explorer rename any HDD inc removable drives like USB thumb drive or Card Readers, I have my USB Thumb drive as Corsair, and Cards Readers are like Top slot, Bottom Slot etc. (easier when you right click a file and send to and know what position cards in drive)

You can use the Registry to give all optical drives names like Pioneer 112D and NEC etc.

 

[sutom]

Ok thanks, renaming the removables sounds easy. I'm definitely not going to change the Windows C drive, I want to keep everything as safe as possible.

But what about renaming my DVD-RW drive to a letter already taken by my 2nd HDD (D)? Will it wipe it and do I need to change the HDD to an unused letter first to make room, then switch it back to the now empty one?
Basically swap DVD-RW to D, "DATA" to E.

 

[ANDARIAL]

control panel-administrative tools-computer management-storage-disk management
right click on whichever drive you want to change the letter of and bingo
tip:change the letters to something like x,y,z then you can rename using,g,h,i,etc
hope this makes sense