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  3. April 2004

Re: CD Drive Question - Windows 98

Maybe swap them - change jumpers if need be and put the burner where the old one is on the cable.

Otherwise, you might look for references to the old one (drive letter) in the Registry and change to the drive letter of the burner - take this as last resort. You might also need to do a search for the drive letter in the text of all files on the machine, then modify as needed. You might need an editor that can edit binary files.

Hope the first idea works. ;-)

Vern

At 09:49 AM 4/22/2004, you wrote:
Hi Folks,

Have a Windows 98 PC that has the "normal" CD drive and then also a CD
Burner (drive); so 2 CD drives. The primary one appears to be dead. So there
is no problem using the other one, except that certain software is
automatically looking for the CD in the primary/dead CD drive. Is there any
way in Windows 98 to "redirect" this. Or maybe just renaming them ?

Thanks,

Chuck



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