Default CD letter E, when it is F?

Sean · Post by **Sean** » Tue Mar 26, 2002 6:21 pm

Ok, this isn't a HUGE deal, but it just gets very annoying. As, most may know, when you install new drivers, Windows usually asks for it's disk. Well, when i have it in there, it doesn't detect it right away. Why? because when the thing pops up asking for the disk, it is looking in the E drive (our ZIP drive) not the F drive. What the heck's up with that? Is there a way ti change it? (I am going to look in the registry in a minute). Or, do I just have to live with it?

DocSilly · Post by **DocSilly** » Tue Mar 26, 2002 6:38 pm

Changing the driveletter depends on the OS.

- Win9x:
done via Device Manager / CD drives (removable drives) / properties / settings
You can change the driveletters for optical drives and removable drives (if I'm not mistaken, been a while that I used Win9x)

- Win2k/XP:
done via Disk Management, it's in Control Panel / Admin. Tools / Computer Management -> Storage / Disk Management
Right-click on drive/partition you want to change and select "change drive letter and path ...". You can change almost every driveletter (optical/removable/HDD partitions) as you like, only the system partition is locked.

For both:
Select your CDROM and give it the next available driveletter (most likely G:), Select your ZIP drive and give it the driveletter F: and then go back to your CDROM to make it E: , that should fix this small annoyance.

canton_kid · Post by **canton_kid** » Tue Mar 26, 2002 7:04 pm

You can change drive letter, but your asking for problems!

If you switch drive letters and lable your zip drive to F: and F: to e: then all your installed software is wrong if it needs disks!! If you install a program from cd on F: that requires the cd disk in order to run, the program looks at F:. If you change that drive the disk is not found!

Win 98 is what I use, and HATE! Anyway I have the same type problem, windows always looks for install disks on C:!! Now just WHY would windows look at my Hardrive for an instalation cd??? It Always says c:\win98 not found.

I would like to know if there is a way to force win98se to see I changed cd's with out always having to use eject from win explorer. I DON"T want auto insert notification on!!! I hate when everytime I put in a disk it tries to run or install itself again.

Everytime I boot with a cd in the drive (and other times) windows see's that one disk and will not understand I changed disks. My programs will run fine when I click to open them. The problem is when I want to browse the cd or install something using RUN. Windows always shows the first disk and will not upate to show the newly inserted disk unless I open windows explorer and use the eject fuction!
Even using Explorer, if I just open the drive and put in a new cd, windows shows the same disk constantly, refresh doesn't even work for the cd drives.

Why? After all, you don't need incert notification for A: and if you click with a new disk in the drive, it reads the new disk! Why not on a cd-drive?

canton_kid

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Tue Mar 26, 2002 9:26 pm

Kid, all you have to do is use the F5 (refresh) key to force Windows to refresh the view.

Sean · Post by **Sean** » Tue Mar 26, 2002 10:10 pm

Thanks for the suggestion Doc, but, I don't want to screw anything up.

FP, i will keep that in mind next time.

canton_kid · Post by **canton_kid** » Thu Mar 28, 2002 12:22 pm

I'll try that F5 key. Thanks. I hope it works where I need it too.

In windows explorer using the refresh in the drop down or pop-up menus won't work though. Never tried the F5 key.

Thanks again

canton_kid