Foolestroupe -

With the "display name" method, you can name them after your old girlfriends, and it doesn't matter which alphabetical drive name they have. I think that's one of the reasons the network admins like to have server names instead of just port addresses. One place I worked as a "visiting expert" for a while had one server named "Darth" and the other was "Vader."

Back a few centuries ago (as in Windows 3.11 days) lots of people let the drives take whatever name the machine gave them and just put a "Set" in Config.Sys to rename them so they'd look like they were in order.

With WinXP it's fairly easy to "name" a folder on a drive so that it looks like its a separate hard drive, with an X:\ kind of name in Win Explorer. You can impress the visitors by making it look like you've got 24 hard drives on your machine (26 possible, but you always need a spare hole or two. ...Tell them you've got a couple in the shop being upgraded.)

John