Reserved Drive Letters

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Somewhere a while back, I was able to reserve a drive letter for my CD drives so that they would not change whenever I added or turned on my third rack mounted hard drive i.e. CD ROM was always something like (N) drive. For the life of me, I cannot remember whether I did this in Windows via explorer or the bios. Any ideas out there?

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I think what you are looking for can be found through Device Manager, on the Properties page for the drive itself.

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Thanks Mr. Mark!

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In more detail for anyone not sure:-
Control Panel—>System Properties—>Device Manager—>select CDROM and expand—>select the particular drive (if more than one)—>Properties—>Settings—>Reserved Drive Letters, and make your choice from the drop-down menu, selecting the same letter in both the Start and End boxes. Voila!

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Yeah, funny how you can’t get there from My Computer and right clicking the drive…you only get one tab there. You get three tabs by going through device manager.

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True, but you can get there by selecting the My Computer icon & pressing Alt+Enter to get the Properties box.

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…or right click on my computer icon.

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Edited by Phil Rabichow to make the link clickable – see Help #19
This piece of software may do the trick for you – I have been using it for some months without any problem at all (Win98 SE): http://www.v72735.f2s.com/LetAssig/%5B/url%5D

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Edited by Phil Rabichow to make the link clickable – see Help #19
This piece of software may do the trick for you – I have been using it for some months without any problem at all (Win98 SE): http://www.v72735.f2s.com/LetAssig/%5B/url%5D

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…or right click on my computer icon.

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True, but you can get there by selecting the My Computer icon & pressing Alt+Enter to get the Properties box.

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Yeah, funny how you can’t get there from My Computer and right clicking the drive…you only get one tab there. You get three tabs by going through device manager.

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In more detail for anyone not sure:-
Control Panel—>System Properties—>Device Manager—>select CDROM and expand—>select the particular drive (if more than one)—>Properties—>Settings—>Reserved Drive Letters, and make your choice from the drop-down menu, selecting the same letter in both the Start and End boxes. Voila!

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Thanks Mr. Mark!

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