Why do Microsloth have to be so bloody mindedly awkward and inept. I uset to run a Commodore Amiga 1200 (bought about 12 or 13 years back). It handled ANY drive, disc or partition using a user defined name. You could call your drives logical names such as System, Work, Games or even Eric and the computer would remember which they were. You could use multiple floppy discs for data, and when the computer needed the data which the programme you were using had stored on a specific disc (e.g. "artwork" or "DTP") it would ask you to insert that specific disc.
It didn't matter where in the system something was, the operating system dealt with the name you had defined. You could run a programme which was on removeable media such as a floppy disc, or use a ZIP disc for all your Art or DTP related programmes. If it needed to use shared libraries or fonts which were on the system boot disc (or even stored on a separate named flopy disc) all you needed to organise was an "Assign" - a small script of a couple of lines which told the programme which disc to look at for the directory you needed (the computer would then ask for you to insert the "fonts" floppy).

I find it so primitive and backwards that a computer system is not capable of keeping the data and programmes you have installed in a logical relationship in cyberspace. I expect things to work sensibly, but Microsoft screw it up every time.

Rant over!

I've just had an idea I want to try out, so I'll report back if it works. Acronis OS Selector allows me to create "Hidden" partitions. I wonder what might happen to Drive Letters if I make partition one on this "New D: drive" a hidden "Invisible" partition. Might it shunt the "D:" back down to where it used to be? I'll see what happens and report back.
Quack!
Geoff.