How to assign drive letters to various drives?

I will try this again, system crash. When I partition my hard drive (C) I loose one of my CD-ROM drives. Non Partitioned configuration is: A=floppy, C=hard drive, D=CR-Rom, E= CD-ROM/Burner. During partiton new Drive letters are assigned. D=new partition drive, D moves to E and E moves to F. Problem is when all is said and done "F" is not shown in either the Explorer or the PC Workplace. I have tried Partitioning using fdisk, and Partition Magic, unpluging the CD-Drivers and deleting their Registry entries, and assigining the CD-Drives Fixed letters under system proprieties. Still no "F"!!!!

What is wrong? Is this a Win98 or a Bios problem and do think you can find a fix.

I hope to hear from you soon!! and so in advance

This question was answered on March 19, 2004. Much of the information contained herein may have changed since posting.

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You can assign drive letters to your CD-Rom drives by following these steps:

Click Start, Settings, and then Control Panel

Double-click System, and then click on the Device Manager tab

Click the next to CD-ROM Click on the CD-Rom drive you want change, and then click the Properties button

Click the Settings tab Near the bottom of the window that opens there will be a Reserved Drive Letters section, set Start Drive Letter and End Drive Letter to the drive letter you want the CD-ROM drive to use Click OK until you return to Control Panel (Be sure to click OK, not Cancel or the X to close the window)

Do the same for the second CD-Rom drive, then restart the computer

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Posted by Student of Katharine Gibbs School - New York on March 19, 2004

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