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re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 4:04 pm 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 Paul D On Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 3:01 pm, Nic wrote: >I have a question about Designate >Your Own Drive Letters: > > >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. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 4:22 pm Posted by Nic (3 messages posted) Ah! - that was obviously a simple fact i wasnt aware of. I didnt realise the cdrom drive latter had to be alphabetically before the slave drive letter. Thank you for you response. On Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 4:04 pm, Paul D wrote: >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. >href="http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q51/9/78.ASP">How Windows >assigns Drive Letters > > >color=#3366FF>Paul D > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 6:57 pm Posted by Paul D (2162 messages posted) No - alphabetically after, not before. Paul D On Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 4:22 pm, Nic wrote: Ah! - that was obviously a simple fact i wasnt aware of. I didnt realise the cdrom drive latter had to be alphabetically before the slave drive letter. Thank you for your response. [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 7:01 pm Posted by Nic (3 messages posted) Ok. Thnx On Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 6:57 pm, Paul D wrote: >No - alphabetically after, not before. > >color=#3366FF>Paul D > > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters' Tuesday, March 25, 2003 at 11:24 am Posted by Brandon (2 messages posted) run regedit, do a search for "lastdrive" once you find that change it to "z" then reboot, access device manager and right click drive to be changed. Designate that drive accordingly and redesignate the other media as "s". Works all day long. On Thursday, May 2, 2002 at 3:01 pm, Nic wrote: >I have a question about Designate >Your Own Drive Letters: > > >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. [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum