Re: Invisible DVD Drive

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You might find it convenient, if you mess with partitions and drives alot,
to designate drive letters further down the alphabet for the DVD drives.
Give yourself plenty of room, S: and T: for instance.

"Twanny" <Evenstar@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:D67065B0-9ABA-417F-A629-203C0B5F20AE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Yes Steve: then I called up Computer Management and from Disk Management
> changed the Drive letter to H: which was accepted. Then ofcourse I had to
> change the drive letter for the last of my two DVD Drives, which was also
> accepted and shown correctly here. It is only in Windows Explorer that it
> (J:\DVD-Drive) is not visible. The Drive works well as I said, and
inserting
> a DVD media automatically plays it too.
>
> Twanny
>
> "Steve Rollins" wrote:
>
> > Twanny,
> >
> > When you created the "small partition" was this by any chance assigned
the
> > letter J:?
> >
> > If it was try the following:
> >
> > Right Click My Computer
> > Click Manage
> > Click Disk Management
> >
> > You should be able to see the your DVD drive listed with a drive letter
> > assigned. If the new partiton you created was assigned J:, right click
the
> > DVD drive and click change drive letters and paths and choose a
different
> > drive letter.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > "Twanny" wrote:
> >
> > > The icon for my DVD Drive (J:) does not appear in Windows Explorer.
> > > This happened after I created a small partition on my Secondary HDD
for the
> > > PageFIle.
> > > It works normally but I have to manually enter the path in the address
bar.
> > > It then appears in WinEx, but is lost again when closed.
> > > The BIOS boot up session show both DVD drives.
> > > Any suggestions to put this right?
> > > ---------------------------------
> > > System:
> > > Intel Pentium IIIE, 650 MHz
> > > Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2
> > > MBO: VIA VT82C693A Apollo Pro133
> > > RAM 448 MB (SDRAM)
> > > Disk Drive WDC WD800BB (74 GB, IDE)
> > > Disk Drive SAMSUNG SV2044D (18 GB, 5400 RPM, Ultra-ATA/66)
> > > Optical Drive PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-107D
> > > Optical Drive SONY DVD-ROM DDU1621
> > > BIOS Award Software International, Inc.
> > > DMI Version 4.51 PG
> > > Video RADEON 7000 SERIES(64 MB)
> > > Audio Creative SB Live! Sound Card
> > > USB1 Controller VIA VT83C572 PCI-USB
> > >
> > > --
> > > Rgds
> > > "Twanny"


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