Are you using a thumb drive/flash drive, something you plug in and take out of the computer? An iPod, anything like that? Something is moving external items one over alphabetically. After you remove the item, restart the computer and see if the Maxtor resumes being Drive G. Elaine So little time and so little to do. --Oscar Levant Hello RickandRana On Wednesday, June 2, 2010, you wrote > Within the last six months or so, our external > Maxtor hard drive has begun > switching from Drive G to Drive H. (This is an > automatic event as neither of > us knows how do accomplish such a feat.) > Most of the programs we have, or most of the > backups we wish to do, do not > accommodate/acknowledge Drive H. In other > words, most of our backups cannot > be done directly to Maxtor on Drive H. We have > to save to a desktop folder > then drag the folder to Maxtor. This does not > happen when Maxtor is in Drive > G. > We just recently defragged and ran diskck on > the Maxtor, never before having > known to do that. > Question: How do we insure our Maxtor stays in > Drive G? Can this be done? > Windows XPpro SP3 > and > Vista SP2 > As always, we are so appreciative of the > helpful folks on this list. > TIA > Rana >