is this you?! Thursday, June 26, 2003 at 2:53 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Lynne (1 messages posted) I came across this quite by accident. Is this the wonderful Alistair Beaton I know of old via London Management?! Do tell! L x On Monday, July 1, 2002 at 3:43 am, Alistair Beaton wrote: >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. > Written in response to: re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' (Alistair Beaton: Monday, July 1, 2002 at 3:43 am) Responses to this message: re: is this you?! (Alistair Beaton: Tuesday, July 1, 2003 at 4:15 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