re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' Monday, July 1, 2002 at 3:43 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Alistair Beaton (29 messages posted) I have the same problem as P McDougall. In my case it appears to be a fairly recent development. I have a DVD Rom drive which was designated 'E' and a CD re-writer designated 'F', which I use for backups. I also have a Lexar multi-media USB reader which I leave permanently connected. This used the drive letters 'G' and 'H' for Smart Media and Compact Flash cards. Now the Lexar reader grabs 'E' and 'F' on booting. I have tried all the solutions suggested on the Annoyances website, using Device Manager and regedit. 'Config.sys' and 'autoexec.bat' are disabled on startup - they contain nothing relevant anyway. When the card reader is disconnected the DVD and CD R/W drive letters are as required but as soon as I plug in the card reader the next bootup switches the drive letters again. I have tried removing the Lexar drivers before re-designating the drive letters then re-installing the Lexar. I found and installed a newer Lexar driver without any improvement. On Sunday, December 30, 2001 at 5:14 pm, mgoodrich wrote: >Yes, sometimes we need to assign a drive letter so backup utilities or other functions >will always be directed to the proper drive regardless of what else is running in >Windows Explorer. >This is a very easy fix: the following is from the Windows Help Files. Look in >Help often for answers to your questons. Many times the information you need is >right there! > >"To change the drive letter assignment for a disk or CD-ROM drive > > to open the System Properties dialog box. >Click the Device Manager tab. >Click the plus sign next to the type of drive, and then double-click the disk or >CD-ROM drive for which you want to change the letter. >Click the Settings tab. >Under Reserved drive letters, change the drive letter assignment. >Notes >You can also open the System Properties dialog box by clicking Start, pointing to >Settings, clicking Control Panel, and then double-clicking System. >If the option to change the drive letter assignment is unavailable, you cannot change >the drive letter." > >-------======-------- > > Written in response to: re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (mgoodrich: Sunday, December 30, 2001 at 5:14 pm) Responses to this message: is this you?! (Lynne: Thursday, June 26, 2003 at 2:53 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (P McDougall: Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 2:44 pm) re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (carl: Sat, Dec 29, 2001, 3:45 pm) re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (mgoodrich: Sun, Dec 30, 2001, 5:14 pm) re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (Alistair Beaton: Mon, Jul 1, 2002, 3:43 am) is this you?! (Lynne: Thu, Jun 26, 2003, 2:53 pm) re: is this you?! (Alistair Beaton: Tue, Jul 1, 2003, 4:15 pm) re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (joshua: Mon, Sep 30, 2002, 10:43 am) re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (Rikki: Tue, Oct 21, 2003, 9:47 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum