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While restoring win 95 the cd drive (D ) was changed to (Y ) how do I go about changing it back.I believe there's a way in Dos but don't know it.Is it msconfig?and or what do I type in.E-mail is Nomadss@trivergent .net

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by peter j

Try this:
Control Panel -> System -> Device Manager
Double click the cd
Properties -> Settings
Reserved Drive Letters Area: Select letter to define first drive to be assigned to device and last letter to be assigned to device. OK
Close System Properties. OK
Restart computer when prompted.

Hope this is of assistance to you.

by nomadss

I can not get into windoze at all it simply keeps looking for a bunch of dll's in the d drive when the drive had changed itself into Y It doesn't give me the option for Y drive so it can't find non of the cabs or dll's then crashes to reboot tried reinstalling 2 more times no avail stuck on Y .

by james a bailey

You well have to manually edit your config.sys and autoexec.bat. To do this first type (at command prompt c:)

edit autoexec.bat

You should see a line in there that looks simular to the following:

C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\MSCDEX.EXE /D:TEACCDI /M:5
Your autoexec file wont look excaltly like this but, the important part is the /D: This determines what the drive letter is. What comes after depends on what kind of cdrom drive you have. So now you can replace the D: with Y: The only thing you should change is the letter itself. Save your changes and exit back to the command prompt.

Next you have to change your config.sys. At command prompt type:

edit config.sys

You should see a line that looks similar to this:

DEVICE=C:\TEAC\TEAC_CDI.SYS /D:TEAC-CDI

Again, all you should change is the letter D: to read Y: After you do this, save changes, exit back to command prompt and reboot your machine. Changes well take place after reboot.

Good Luck!!

by nomadss

Sorry it took so long to answer with off on a tangent found some dos programs a while back fixed it with them but it was in the same reference as your answer so you deserve the points. Thank you for your Time and Patience,
Nomadss

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