Re: Drive Letter Assignments

From: Dave Patrick (mail_at_Nospam.DSPatrick.com)
Date: 01/20/05

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    You can reassign non-system, non-boot partition drive letters in Disk
    Management
    Start|Run|diskmgmt.msc 

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"Rich-LP" wrote:
| My main drive is C: but the cd-rom drive follows at D:, then comes the
| 2nd hard drive as E: and partitions F: and G:
|
| I want the cd-rom drive letter to be last. Is there a simple way to get
| it reassigned or do I have to make some sort of Registry hack?
|
| What happens if I remove it via Device Manager, disconnect it, reboot a
| couple of times and then re-connect it? When WIN2K finds new hardware
| will it assign the CD-Rom to the last drive letter?
|
| Thanks for your help.....
|
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