Re: Change Drive Letter on CDRom

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From: Alex Nichol (alexn.mvpdts_at_ntlworld.delete.com)
Date: 11/05/04 

Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2004 16:17:26 +0000

Chris wrote:

>thanks for the help in advance.
>how do i change the drive letter on my CDRom?
>i am using winxp pro sp1.

Control Panel - Admin Tools - Computer Management, select Disk
Management and look lower right for the Icon of the CD drive (or for
graphic of hard disks). There you can r-click the CD or in any
partition on hard drive except C and take Change Drive Letter 

-- 
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.  Alexn@mvps.D8E8L.org (remove the D8 bit)

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