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by hhjaxfl

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Hello
I installed another hard drive and now it is E drive and the cdrom is F drive. Now when I try and use certian software it says to insert cd in E drive even though the disk is in F on some software I am able to edit the .ini file ,the others have an .ini file but do not referance the cdrom
Any help will be appreciated

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by dmiles

This will occur when you have partitioned,your C:/Drive,so the next letter is assigned
To change the CD Drive letter,Go to Start>Settings Control Panel,then double-click on the system icon,click the Device Mnager tab ,in the list you want to click on the plus at cd rom,highlight cd rom and click the properties button at bottom of box,then you will change the drive letter.
If this does not work open the CMOS Control Panel(F8) and locate the CD Rom and change drive letter.

by vultur

The prior suggestion shows some merit; however, ALL Hard Drives take Drive letters before the CD-Rom. You may not set the CD-Rom back to E:.

Unfortunately, you are left with a few choices. You can open the registry and do a search for anything pointing to e: and swithc it to F: AND modify any of those config/ini files. Most of the applications now reference the CD-Rom from the registry information. For example, Look under HDKey_Hardware/software/microsoft/windows/currentversion/setup/. You will see a line that tells you where your source files came from (Most likely the CD-Rom or windows\option\...).

Note: You will also run into this problem if you modify your partition count. That is if you make you 8.4G HD in to 2 partiotionsinstead of 1. They will give you C: and E:, assuming you have an additional HD (D:).

I generally push my CD-Rom Drive letter out with a fresh build. Set the CD-Rom to M: so I never have to worry about moving them arround.

BTW, PowerQuest Partition Magic includes a Magic Mover program. It is designed to handle this exact problem (more related to partitioning drives). It is an exceptional piece of software. It allows you to change you partitions from fat32 to fat16 to NTFS, plus many more variants with cluster sizes. Best of all, it converts you data. I have never lost a file yet using it. (Though I should backup much more often than I do ;)

I hope this helps you out of your bind. BTW before you mess with the registry make sure you back them up first.

by grantcom

Vultor has it right. One other option is to uninstall and then reinstall the software. Do this on the programs you cannot find the setup information on. Office, as I recall uses an .stf extension to store the drive letter.

by hhjaxfl

Thank you
I used Vultor's suggestion and found it in the Reg.
I knew about the reinstall but I wanted to stay away from that .
Thanks again

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