CD drive letter in Win98

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Lars-Erik ?sterud - 27 Oct 2004 23:58 GMT

I now have two partitions on my new HD. My CD drive that was D: is now
suddely E: and that causes trouble. Is there any way to change this?

I know there is in WinXP but is there in Win98se (I can assign a
letter, but only letters not used ny HDD is available, and I cannot
change the letters for the HDDs, they are grayed out...)

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Jeff Richards - 28 Oct 2004 02:43 GMT

You cannot change a drive letter for a hard disk drive, as these are
assigned from DOS before Windows starts.

You can use third party software to remap drive letters. See, for example:
http://www.v72735.f2s.com/LetAssig/

It is good practice to install your CD drive with a letter that is unlikely
to be ever used for a hard drive, such as R. If you made that change now,
then you would be protected for future upgrades.

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>I now have two partitions on my new HD. My CD drive that was D: is now
> suddely E: and that causes trouble. Is there any way to change this?
>
> I know there is in WinXP but is there in Win98se (I can assign a
> letter, but only letters not used ny HDD is available, and I cannot
> change the letters for the HDDs, they are grayed out...)

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Kyuso Cahi - 28 Oct 2004 07:29 GMT

> You cannot change a drive letter for a hard disk drive, as these are
> assigned from DOS before Windows starts.

Actually, you CAN change the drive letter of a CD drive. The topic says 'CD
drive'.

Just go to Control Panel -> System -> CD drive -> Properties, and you will
see drive letter assignment range. Make both start/end range to one letter
way past last drive of a hard disk, like L: or something.

I do this in my Win98 (I don't have Win98se, but I assume it should be the
same).

Those single-letter drive names are really pesky, aren't they? I wonder when
those name conventions will ever disappear. I don't have a single problem
in linux, since you can name devices any name you want, really.

Kyuso Cahi

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Jeff Richards - 28 Oct 2004 08:01 GMT

The topic says 'CD drive letter' but OP wants to change the drive letter of
the new hard disk partition so that he can _avoid_ changing the letter of
the CD.

You cannot change a drive letter for a hard disk drive.

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>> You cannot change a drive letter for a hard disk drive, as these are
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> Kyuso Cahi

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