I had the hardest time finding this one. Ordinarily to make a drive use a specific letter in Windows XP, you go into disk management and select the letter you want. But my new laptop started with drive E. B wasn’t an option!
After a bit of searching, I finally figured it out. From a command prompt:
1. Run the command MOUNTVOL E: /L. This will return the windows volume name of the drive
2. Run the command MOUNTVOL E: /D to disconnect the drive.
3, Finally run the command MOUNTVOL B: VOLUMENAME where VOLUMENAME is the name that was returned in step 1. Your drive is now B:
As an alternative, you could use a “NTFS junction point”. For example, Create a directory on drive C: called “USB”. Then
3. run the command MOUNTVOL C:\USB: VOLUMENAME where VOLUMENAME is the name that was returned in step 1. Your drive is now c:\USB! This is a pretty cool for power users, who keep complaining about running out of drive letters!
As another quick tip. You can copy and paste in the command line window: just click on the icon in the upper left corner for the commands. Useful, as windows says my volumne name was \\?\Volume{e667bfb7-7387-11dd-8ee3-001f3bd61d37}\