Old externalvdrives stored in Lightroom 4

I have a number of old external drives in "My Folders" lightroom thinks are still active mostly because the computer has assigned a new drive letter to the same drive several times. I would like to delete these from Lightroom and assign a new letter to the current drive I am using, Any ideas how to remove the old drives?
Barry

I have a little different grasp of what you are doing than I did previously. I understood that you didn't have the drives OR the images. I guess that was a bad assumption on my part. If you have moved those images to another drive or drive letter, the best thing to do is as Cornelia has suggested. Just search for the missing folder, and show Lightroom where the images are now. By doing that, you will retain all of the adjustments that you have made to those files.
After you have found all of the missing folders, and Lightroom isn't looking for images on that old drive anymore, the drive will simply disappear from your folder list.

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