Problem with CD Drive Letters: CONFIRMED!

Saltheart Foamfollower · #1 October 12th, 2003, 06:27 PM

I had my cd-rom on P: and my cd-writer on Q:, with the same problem as noted here. Changing the cd-writer to I: solved the problem.

As for gregebowman's situation, whether his applications will find the CD on another drive as Z: depends on the applications in question, some programs are looking at all cd-rom drives available.

When the Windows (98se) CD is required it will look at the drive it was installed from. When this fails it will ask for a valid location. You can give the new drive in this case, possibly with subdirectory. I installed windows from D: and renamed the drive later on to P:.

gregebowman · #2 October 13th, 2003, 02:21 AM

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Originally posted by Richard:
Greg,

What is that drive letter? Just follow the directions from the other gentleman and you should be able to change it.

WEll, my drive letter is Z, and my system is Windows ME. I did attempt his method he described, but there's nothing in the properties to change the drive letter. I'll just have to wait for the patch, I guess.

Suicide Junkie · #3 October 13th, 2003, 02:32 AM

Right click "My computer"
Click Properties in the menu
Click "Device Manager" tab.
(wait a sec)
Click the plus beside "CDROM"
Click your CD drive in question.
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Click the properties button at the bottom (or ALT-R)
Click the "settings" tab
Look at the bottom, and you will see "Reserved Drive Letters"
- "Start Drive Letter" and "End Drive Letter" should be set to whatever range of letters you want the drive to fall into. (Set them both the same to force a particular selection)

Fyron · #4 October 13th, 2003, 03:00 AM

Just for reference, that does not work in 2000 and XP. You have to use the Disk Management feature in the Computer Management administrative tool (it is in the right-click menu for My Computer on the desktop).

gregebowman · #5 October 13th, 2003, 03:24 PM

I did try that, but when I got to that second screen, nothing showed up that would let me change the drive letter. So I'm giving up until the patch is released. Got an e-mail from the tech support people, and they said that Aaron is aware of the problem and that a patch should be on its way soon. Hopefully it won't be too long

Malfador Machinations · #6 October 13th, 2003, 07:45 PM

You guys are too quick, you beat me to the fix! Yes the dumb CD checker is only checking drive letters up to J:. The simple fix is to remap your drive to a lower letter. This will be fixed for all drive letters in the official patch coming later this week.

Aaron

gregebowman · #7 October 13th, 2003, 09:28 PM

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Originally posted by Malfador Machinations:
You guys are too quick, you beat me to the fix! Yes the dumb CD checker is only checking drive letters up to J:. The simple fix is to remap your drive to a lower letter. This will be fixed for all drive letters in the official patch coming later this week.

Aaron

Yippee!! Can't wait for that patch to come out. It's bad enough to have to wait months for the game to finally come out to discover that I couldn't play the game as is. Thanks Aaron.