Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters'
Monday, July 1, 2002 at 11:25 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Kathy
(1 messages posted)
I have a question about Designate
Your Own Drive Letters:I hooked up an IOMEGA zip drive to the printer port
of my Itronix 6250 laptop. I had not yet installed the software for it, but the machine
detected it and assigned it to drive A. I then downloaded the software and it was
assigned to another drive, but drive A still showed up as a "removable disk" on My
Computer. Later, when I attached the portable floppy (which is supposed to always
be on drive A) it was randomly assigned drive D.
I eventually removed the IOMEGA thinking once it was gone the floppy might go back
to drive A. That didn't work, so I looked on the net and found this article. However,
I have been unable to change the drive for the floppy via Solution #1 or #2 in the
article. #1 does not allow user to designate A B C or D drives; #2 reverts back to
D drive every time I restart. The new string I created (UserDriveLetterAssigment)
will still say "AA", but CurrentDriveLetterAssignment reverts back to D. The removable
disk is not listed on System under Control Panel, just on My Computer.
Some other things I have tried: 1)when I first went to Regedit.exe, there were 2
devices under floppy, and one was "NEC Generic" and said drive A. I thought that
must be what My Computer is seeing as "removable disk" on drive A, and eventually
I have deleted that altogether. 2) I deleted the config.sys and autoexec.bat files
in case drivers were being assigned there as stated in the article. Still, somewhere,
I don't know where, the OS or something is overriding my change to Regedit and still
assigns drive D to the floppy, as well as My Computer reflecting a non-existent removable
disk on drive A.
Although I can access the floppy from My Computer, I can't create a boot disk (nor
access one if I can't start Windows normally, I think) from drive D and would like
very much to get it back to drive A. I used to use NT and I think there while booting
up you could go into BIOS and change the boot order, but I can't find that on Windows
98. (Or am I thinking of an older OS?) I would certainly appreciate any help anyone
can offer, I am at my wit's end, and have worked on this for several hours. Thank
you if you read all the way through this, double thanks if you have any suggestions!!
:)
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