Yers, of course, that should have been de rigeur should it not? Using 6.0.1 I am unsure about what you mean by drive designator but for some reason which I never bothered to chase down during the mayhem of putting a new system together, the drive where the camera images (and the music files) are is called My Passport I: I always thought that was a bit odd. 6.0.1 is not seeing any as far as I can tell, not even system resident crap up in 'My Pictures,' etc, Almost forgot, used XP Pro out of an office, and I am unsure what a platform is. The remainder of the drives are configured in the normal Windows mannr, C (system), D, E ,F ,G etc.