I've just enrolled to do the ECDl and the college gave me
a disc. When I went to play the disc it gave me the
message: your drive letter is higher than D, E or F. Exit
programe and change your drive letter to D, E or F.
Can anyone tell me how to do this?

Thanks

Danny

"Danny" <> wrote in message news:008d01c3ba97$9a762d50$(E-Mail Removed)...
> I've just enrolled to do the ECDl and the college gave me
> a disc. When I went to play the disc it gave me the
> message: your drive letter is higher than D, E or F. Exit
> programe and change your drive letter to D, E or F.
> Can anyone tell me how to do this?

Hi Danny,

This is quite easy with XP. The CD drive(s) will normally be assigned the
next available letter after your hard disk partition(s); so, if you have one
hard disk partition C:, the CD drive will be D:. If you have four hard disk
partitions C:, D:, E: and F:, the CD-ROM will be G:, and so on.

To re-assign the letters:
(note: proceed with caution. If you change the letter of a drive, then any
software that depends on that drive having the original letter will fail to
load. It is especially important not to change the letter of the system
drive. Proceed at your own risk.)

1) right-click on the My Computer icon (in the Start Menu or on the desktop,
depending on your config)
2) from the context menu, select "Manage"
3) In the Computer Management window that appears, click on "Disk
Management" in the left hand pane.
4) In the right hand pane, you should now see a list of your disks, with a
bar-graph representation of them below.
5) In the lower half of the right hand side, find your CD drive (probably
identified as "CD-ROM" 0 or 1), and right-click on it where it has the small
CD drive icon in the first column, e.g where it says something like "CD
(X" where X is its current letter. From the context menu that appears,
select "Change drive letter and paths..."
6) A dialog box titled "Change Drive letter and Paths for X)" should now
appear. Under where it says "allow access to this volume...", click on the
"T:" and then click the "Change..." button below.
7) In the new dialog box that appears, select your preferred letter (D, E or
F) from the drop-down list, and click OK. If neither D:, E: nor F: are
available, then that's because you already have those letters assigned to
other (probably hard-)drives, so you'll have so change THEIR letters to
something else to free up a suitable letter for the CD. Note: do NOT change
the letter of the boot drive, which is normally C:. This WILL mess up your
system.
8) When warned that "changing the drive letter of a volume might cause
programs to no longer run.." click Yes.
9) Close the Computer Management window - job done.

Before doing the above, I suggest you also read this article on the
Microsoft Knowledge Base, which explains the procedure probably better than
I have..
http://support.microsoft.com/default...&Product=winxp

Hope this helps, and good luck with your ECDL.
Oh, one more tip - I suggest you read this before posting to these forums
again:
http://www.cdt.org/speech/spam/030319spamreport.shtml