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re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters'
Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 4:04 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Paul D
(2162 messages posted)
Go back and read the tip again thoroughly. What you are
attempting is impossible in 9x. Removable media drives will always come after
fixed drives. All you can do is move your CD drive letters further down the alphabet.How Windows
assigns Drive Letters
On Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 3:01 pm, Nic wrote:
>I have a question about Designate
>Your Own Drive Letters:
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>Ok, i have tried all suggestions on this topic to change my slave drive letter to
>'S' so that I can redesignate my CDROM drive letter to D for various reasons including
>to help a computer illiterate member of the family find there way around still after
>the addition of a new master drive.
>None of the suggestions here have unfortuantely worked.
>I have deleted my config.sys , checked the contents of my autoexec.bat , made my
>D drive 'removable' in Device manager, etc, etc, etc.
>
>The problem i am encountering is that even though i have checked the 'removable'
>box in the properties section of my drive, after a reboot, the 'start drive letter'
>and 'end drive letter' drop down menus are still not available for use.
>I have also tried changing the assigned letter in regedit using the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Enum\ESDI\
> string and changing both the CurrentDriveLetterAssignment and 'created' UserDriveLetterAssignment
>keys.
>I am still puzzled as to how i can re-assign my D drive letter.
>If anyone who has found a solution to this problem can help, id be very gratefull.
>Thank you.
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