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steven c wrote: > You can, indeed, assign an 11-character name to any drive in a DOS-based > system...in fact, when you farmat a disk, hard or floppy, you'll be prompted > to enter a name for it. However, what you can't do is access these disks > by typing in the names...Wintel only recognizes letters of the alphabet > as drive designations, and A:, B: and C: are automatically assigned to > two floppy drives and the first hard drive (or partition) on the system. Permit me a minor correction. Windows inherits the boot drive letter from its installation. That is also the only drive designation which cannot be changed. Under normal circumstances, the boot drive will be C: and the above is correct. However, I learned to my regret that a perfectly normal startup with an empty primary drive is not "normal" in that sense. Since I have a number of optical and other drives (including the one holding the CD-ROM to install XP), they were assigned letters C: through F: and my boot drive is G:. Some software looks for a writable C: drive. In order to satisfy its demands, I have assigned C: to a flash drive. Mike -- [log in to unmask] http://www.mrichter.com/