Re: drive letter limit

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Sounds like Disk Management "letter assignment" time. Re-lable the CD drive to a higher letter. Instructions? See Help and Support, "Disk Management"

Calvin wrote:

Actually, I just unplug the power connection to my slave hard disk. I have one DVD rom and one CDRW. I added salve hard disk, DVD rom and CDRW after my windows xp home installed. Is it a problem? Thanks.

"REDWAGON" wrote:


Please explain: You say "If I disable the slave hard drive". Are you disabling slave HD on partician 1 or 2 ? or both. Then you say "...the system can recognize all of the TWO CD ROM" What two CD roms are you talking about after you disable "the slave HD ??
Rick is right. unless you used TweakUI to disable any or some of the drive letters past a certain letter, you should be able to use all of the 26 available (A through Z)

Redwagon....

"Rick "Nutcase" Rogers" wrote:


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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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
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Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
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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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