Devices change drive letters after reboot

[CharlesEF]

Hi All,

I use WinXP Pro SP2, with all updates installed, on a P4 2.0Ghz.
About once or twice a week I have a DVD-RW drive change drive letters
with a USB 2.0 Card Reader drive after a reboot. I used Disk
Management to assign the 4 USB 2.0 card reader drives and the 2 DVD
drives in my preferred order. After a reboot the DVD-RW drive (last
drive letter) will change drive letters with a USB 2.0 card reader
drive (first card reader drive letter).

Does anyone have any idea how to stop this? Or why it is happening?


Thanks for any help,

Charles

 

[Noncompliant]

Probably get laughed out of the house, but, if you want the DVD to have
drive letter afterwards on permanent basis, clean install XP. Then assign a
latter drive letter like S: or T: to it. Then install your software from
CD/DVD. Then introduce the card reader to the PC.
Or
just leave it alone.

 

[Woody]

They are being assigned by whatever driver loads first. Use disk management
to assign the CD drive to X or/and Y. That will get them away from competing
with your card readers.

 

[CharlesEF]

Hi,

This is a clean install and I did the steps exactly as you described
execpt for 1 step. I installed the Card Reader software before I
installed Roxio 7. Come to think of it I did not start having this
problem until after I installed Roxio 7. I think I will ask in the
Roxio forums also, just in case they have heard of this problem.


Thanks for your input,

Charles

 

[CharlesEF]

Hi,

My DVD-R is drive W: and my DVD-RW is drive X:. My 4 card reader
drives start at drive letter S: and end in letter V:. Drive X: gets
exchanged with drive S:, so X: becomes S: and S: becomes X:. Drives
C: thru R: are hard drives.


Thanks for your input,

Charles

 

[Noncompliant]

Is this where the cardreader device defaults to lower drive (further down
the alphabet) letter like some Sandisk flash/thumb drives? My Sandisk 1GB
thumb drive defaults to W: Cd drive is S. DVD drive is T: Last partition
letter is M: A little drive letter space to breathe with still.

 

[CharlesEF]

Hi,

I remember the first time I had this problem. After I installed Roxio
7 I had to reboot. After the reboot I noticed that Drag-To-Disc was
set to use drive S:. Since I knew drive S: was a card slot I thought
Roxio was crazy, but when I looked at the drive order I found my DVD-
RW had actually changed from drive X: to drive S:. I used disk
management to change the drives back then rebooted. After this Drag-
To-Disc was using the correct drive letter (X. Thought the problem
was fixed but since then I find that once or twice a week, after a
reboot, I have to change the drive letters around again. Not sure why
but I will ask Roxio.


Thanks for your input,

Charles

 

[Uwe Sieber]

Hi All,

I use WinXP Pro SP2, with all updates installed, on a P4 2.0Ghz.
About once or twice a week I have a DVD-RW drive change drive letters
with a USB 2.0 Card Reader drive after a reboot. I used Disk
Management to assign the 4 USB 2.0 card reader drives and the 2 DVD
drives in my preferred order. After a reboot the DVD-RW drive (last
drive letter) will change drive letters with a USB 2.0 card reader
drive (first card reader drive letter).

Does anyone have any idea how to stop this? Or why it is happening?

There are reports that ZoneAlarm causes this effect.
http://groups.google.com/group/micr...p.hardware/browse_frm/thread/7f955e9bc27fa903



Uwe

 

[CharlesEF]

Hi,

Yes, I do use the same version of ZoneAlarm. Most likely that is my
problem also.


Thanks for the link and help,

Charles

 

[Fred S *****]

Charles,

I was one of the folks that posted on the ZA site (as well as here) and
indeed ZA causes that.

As a result, I have gone back to version 6.1.744.001, which is the
latest one that does NOT change drive letters.

I suggest you do the same.

Fred S

 

[CharlesEF]

Hi Fred,

Thanks for the conformation. Yes, I think I will do that too. I
think I still have that version somewhere on my HD (at least I hope
so).


Thanks for your input,

Charles

 

[Noncompliant]

Another version ZA problem found in a google websearch:
http://bertk.mvps.org/html/tips.html
See:
Why is the System Volume Information folder so large?

 

[CharlesEF]

Thanks, I will check it out.

Charles

Another version ZA problem found in a google websearch:http://bertk.mvps.org/html/tips.html
See:
Why is the System Volume Information folder so large?

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