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Conference noted::windows95

Title:Microsoft Windows 95 ("Chicago")
Notice:Please read topics 1 to 22 before writing anything
Moderator:EEMELI::BACKSTROM
Created:Sun Nov 13 1994
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:2958
Total number of notes:19968

2912.0. "CD appears as drive G instead of F..." by SIOG::CORCORAN () Fri Apr 25 1997 11:57

    How do I get Windows95 to change the drive letter it has assigned to a
    CD drive.I have a VenturisFP466 (2 ide buses).The primary IDE has drives 
    C & D,the second ide has drive E & F(the CD).
    
    If dos or Win95 in safe mode is booted,the CD appears correctly as F.
    With a full Win95 boot it appears as G.
    
    If I disable loading the CMD drivers,same thing.Could it be something
    to do with MSCDEX....
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2912.1NETCAD::GENOVAFri Apr 25 1997 12:157
    
    Start/Settings/ControlPanel/System/DeviceManager/CDROM/
    
    Then click on you CDROM Type, then click on settings, then choose
    Start drive letter to F:, then reboot, and you should have it.
    
    /art
2912.2BHAJEE::JAERVINENOra, the Old Rural AmateurFri Apr 25 1997 14:175
    That having been said, I always put my CD-ROM letter further away from
    the disks (I tend to use R: as in cd-Rom - it's easy to remember). That
    way the drive letter doesn't get pushed around if you add
    disks/partitions.
    
2912.3TARKIN::LINBill LinFri Apr 25 1997 17:466
    And I start with Z: for my first CD-ROM and work backward as I add
    more.
    
    FWIW,
    
    Bill
2912.4BHAJEE::JAERVINENOra, the Old Rural AmateurSat Apr 26 1997 12:132
    re .3: I can't use Z: - it's reserved for my Zip drive... (also easy to
    remember ;-)
2912.5TARKIN::LINBill LinSat Apr 26 1997 16:486
    re: .4 by BHAJEE::JAERVINEN
    re: Z for Zip
    
    That's as good a reason as I've heard.
    
    ;-)
2912.6What the "L" :-)?CADSYS::GROSSThe bug stops hereMon Apr 28 1997 11:044
My Starion has the CD-Rom as drive "L", as in CD-Lom.
Japanese maybe :-)?

Dave
2912.7TARKIN::LINBill LinMon Apr 28 1997 11:095
    re: .6 by CADSYS::GROSS
    
    Tsk tsk, Dave.  Not very culturally sensitive of you...
    
    Bill
2912.8BHAJEE::JAERVINENOra, the Old Rural AmateurMon Apr 28 1997 12:361
    Besides, that would be Chinese... ;-)