Change drive letter for Nano

I have an Ipod Nano, 2nd generation. The problem is that this is the second nano of the same type to be connected to my PC running Windows XP. The computer does not recognize the second nano. I would like to format my nano (FAT32) and give it a different drive letter.
Thanks
John

Hi:
If you change the drive letter of the recovery drive, if you need to run the recovery program it won't work, because it is set to look for drive D as the recovery partition and drive C as the drive to be reformatted and recovered.
I would make as set of recovery DVD's ASAP if you choose to change the drive letter anyway.
Then you can use those to recover from.
There will be another issue though, and that is the recovery DVD's create a new recovery partition, and guess what drive letter it will end up on.
So, if I were you, I would label my secondary HDD E:\
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