Re: drive letter limit

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Hi,

Unless you used TweakUI to disable drive letters, you should be able to use
all 26 characters of the alphabet. Sounds to me more like a controller
conflict. What, if any, events took place prior to this problem? Did you
make any hardware changes?

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"Calvin" <Calvin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:6D60F21D-CD05-4B8C-8257-2695F83B4830@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi there,
>
> I have 2 CD rom, one floppy disk drive, 2 hard drives. The following is
> the drive letter assignment.
>
> A: Floppy
> C: Primary hard drive
> D: CD rom
> E: Slave hard drive (partition 1)
> F: Slave hard drive (partition 2)
>
> One of the CM ROM drive is missing and cannot be recognized by the
> system. If I disable the slave hard drive, the system can recognize all of
> the two CD ROM. Is it a limit of drive letter in XP home version? Or I can
> modify some settings to make the system show all of my two CD ROM drives.
>
> Thanks
>
> Calvin


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