RE: [PCTECH] CD Drive Question - Windows 98

["Chuck Lewis" <clewis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Awesome John, thanks. And thanks to David and Vern for chiming in !

Thanks !

Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:pctech-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of John Brandt Sr.
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 10:20 AM
To: 'PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users'
Subject: RE: [PCTECH] CD Drive Question - Windows 98


1. Go to Control Panel... System... Device Manager... CD ROM... Select the
dead device...
Click on Properties... 
2. Set the start drive letter to something way down the alphabet... like
"R"... Set the end drive letter to the same value...
3. Reboot
This will move that drive assignment down, and the working drive will assume
the current drive letter assignment for the dead drive... You won't be able
to assign the working drive letter to the dead drive letter until after you
reboot...
When you reboot, you can change the working drive to the start drive
letter/end drive letter to be the dead drive's letter assignment...
4. Optional: Do the same as #1 and #2 except assign the dead drive's letter
assignment to the working drive.

John Brandt
iStudio400.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Vern Hamberg [mailto:vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:59 AM
To: PC Technical Discussion for iSeries Users
Subject: Re: [PCTECH] 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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