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re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters'
Monday, September 30, 2002 at 10:43 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by joshua
(1 messages posted)
Thanks for the advice - worked exactly as you specified on a Windows 98 system. Using
an Olympus Camedia USB camera. It looked to me like the camedia software bumped a
mapped drive off and "stole" its drive letter - anyone else observed this?
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
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> 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."
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