re: Changing Drive Letter in XP
Monday, January 29, 2007 at 6:09 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Paul
(1 messages posted)
I had the same problem with card readers coming up with drive letters before those
of hard drives when I built a new PC recently.
I found that the problem was solved by setting the Plug & Play OS setting in the
BIOS before installing Windows. It seems odd that this wasn't set by default as modern
operating systems (which most people will be installing in a new machine) support
Plug & Play.
The impression I got from the manual that came with the motherboard was that if this
option isn't set, the BIOS will detect all storage devices itself. It seems that
it detects USB-connected storage devices (such as my card readers) before IDE/SATA
drives and the OS then uses them in the detected order. If this option is set, the
BIOS detects IDE/SATA drives (which it needs in order to boot the OS) but leaves
detecting USB storage devices to the OS. Consequently, the hard drives are detected
and assigned drive letters first, which is what we want.
Hope this helps.
However, I also have the problem with changes to the CD/DVD drive letter not sticking.
I like it set to Z, so it doesn't change if I add hard drives. Windows (XP SP2b)
reverts it to E every time I reboot. Quite annoying and I've not yet found a solution.
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