Assigned new drive letter to DVD drive. Reverts to old letter on reboot.

[Rob]

My DVD RW drive loads by default as E:, the lowest available letter. I
want to use E: for something else, so I assigned it the letter Z:
using Administrative Tools. But on reboot it reverts to E:.

A virtual drive created by the InstantWrite software has the same
problem, i.e. I cannot permanently reassign the drive letter, but
another DVD drive which was earlier assigned to Y: is still Y:.

I can successfully reassign the drive letters of the various hard disk
partitions. They do not revert on reboot.

I have just reinstalled my whole system. I had the problem before
reinstallation, but as far as I can recall it was not there at first
in the new installation. It is now.

TIA for any help.

Rob

 

[Nightowl]

My DVD RW drive loads by default as E:, the lowest available letter. I
want to use E: for something else, so I assigned it the letter Z:
using Administrative Tools. But on reboot it reverts to E:.

A virtual drive created by the InstantWrite software has the same
problem, i.e. I cannot permanently reassign the drive letter, but
another DVD drive which was earlier assigned to Y: is still Y:.

I can successfully reassign the drive letters of the various hard disk
partitions. They do not revert on reboot.

I have just reinstalled my whole system. I had the problem before
reinstallation, but as far as I can recall it was not there at first
in the new installation. It is now.

Hi Rob

Are you perhaps using Zone Alarm? This was a known problem in version
6.5.x.x; I'm not sure about later ones. If you think this might apply to
you, have a look here:
http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs/board/message?board.id=gen&message.id=37443

 

[Uwe Sieber]

It's a known problem with ZoneAlarm 6.5. Norton GoBack is also
suspected to cause this.

Uwe

 

[Zilbandy]

It's a known problem with ZoneAlarm 6.5. Norton GoBack is also
suspected to cause this.

Apparently ZA 6.5.737 fixed the problem. I was able to change my dvd
drive letter and after rebooting, the new drive letter was showing
correctly.

 

[Uwe Sieber]

Apparently ZA 6.5.737 fixed the problem. I was able to change my dvd
drive letter and after rebooting, the new drive letter was showing
correctly.

Thanks for the info!

 

[Rob]

Yes, ZA, it was, though I was using version 7. I removed it from the
startup directory, but that was not enough. I uninstalled it and my
drives are not reverting.

So, what is a good alternative free firewall?

Thanks all.

Rob

 

[Zilbandy]

Yes, ZA, it was, though I was using version 7. I removed it from the
startup directory, but that was not enough. I uninstalled it and my
drives are not reverting.

So, what is a good alternative free firewall?

Well, now that your drives are like you want them, may I recommend ZA.
Reinstall it and it should be happy.