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How do you assign drives in XP

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by iogt007

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I have 2 physical dvd drives assigned as "E" and "F". When I got this computer, it also had drives G,H,I listed in computer management as card readers. After installing InterVideo WinDVD program, I now have a DVD drive listed as "K" but I only have 2 physical CD/DVD drives. I notice that sometimes when I play my games in drive "E" that it cannot locate the CD unless I open the drive and reclose it with the CD in it. I noticed that "K" drive has the same driver as "E" and if I uninstall "K" drive, it reappears after restart. How do I elliminate "K" drive?

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by nepenthe0

Open 'disk manager'

C:\Windows\System32\diskmgmt.exe [Microsoft Common Console Document]

You can also access this from Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management

Give your optical drives consecutive letters such as 'X' and 'Y'. This will free up the 'E' and 'F' letters for card readers and flash drives.

I place drive shortcuts on my 'start' menu so that I can quickly access accessory drives. You can rename these shortcuts for easier identification ('X drive' becomes 'DVD'; 'Y' drive becomes 'CD').

If you don't want card reader drive letters appearing in Explorer, you can eliminate them using TweakUI:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

Open TweakUI > My Computer > Drives and uncheck the drive you don't want to see. This does no violence to the assigned drive letter nor to the computer's recognition of the drive.

Hope this helps.

Rick/Portland, OR

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