Community Newsletter: Q&A: How do I stop Windows from reassigning my external drive letters?

Forest for the trees syndrome (or "outside the box")

I'm sorry, I don't know why I'm even writing this; it must be years of pent up rage. I have an accelerated Amiga 4000 with SCSI and IDE interfaces, a graphics card, A 6 CD changer, CD burners, a sound card, and a lowly 68060 processor running at 50 mhz and performing about 80 mips. I can create screen modes with virtually ANY hor and vert res and scan rate I want. I can digitize sound. It browses and e-mails and ftp's just perfectly on 3.0 mbps DSL (340KB per second)without a processor fan OR HEATSINK because it runs a preemptive multitasking OS called Amigados. Here's the point: By default the drives are named as follows: DF0 for the first floppy, DH0 for the first HDD, CD0 for the first CD, etc. But I can change that to almost anything I want; I name Seagate drives SE0 and Quantum drives QU0, etc. I agree with those who maintain that MS has set the computer industry back a decade or two. I find it unforgivable that MS got away with rushing out an extremely broken OS and was then allowed to slowly fix it over one or two decades and then, that they made any money at all or received any acclaim at all simply because people are too lazy to learn anything. Therefore I need to express my opinion that your answer is an even worse answer. Sitting next to the Amiga 4000 is a 3.0 gigahertz Northwood (Pentium) based machine and they are networked, so there's no need for any kind of response along the lines of "just 'cause you've never used Windows" or similar, because I have had the opportunity to compare Windows to a very good OS for years now, and I will continue to disagree. Finally, to stay on-topic, I need to add another option for preventing Windows from choosing your drive letters: Simply choose another OS, install it, learn how to use it, and name the drive whatever you want to name it. As a bonus, you won't be required to stare at "My Computer" or "My Documents" or "My Network Places" or any of that other somewhat cheesy stuff any more!