cd drive letter has changed!

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I've recently installed a second hard drive onto my system & as a
result the cd drive has changed it's letter from E: to F:! When I tried
to launch an application that I have installed on my main hard drive
partition (C:) that requires a CD to read it's data from, it refuses to
launch saying that it cannot find a CD in drive E:, which it obvioulsy
can't as E: is no longer the CD drive!
Now I know that I could use the disk maagement console snap in to
change the drive letters back again, but I don't really want to do that
so I was wondering whether there's an easy way to solve this problem by
getting the app to look at the correct letter for the drive (ie) to get
it to look at the F: drive when I run the program from it's exe on the
C: drive, or do I have to re-install it to get it to look at the proper
drive? I'd really rather not have to swap the drive letters about unless
I really have to so any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in
advance!
 
Tim Lister said:
I've recently installed a second hard drive onto my system & as a
result the cd drive has changed it's letter from E: to F:! When I tried
to launch an application that I have installed on my main hard drive
partition (C:) that requires a CD to read it's data from, it refuses to
launch saying that it cannot find a CD in drive E:, which it obvioulsy
can't as E: is no longer the CD drive!
Now I know that I could use the disk maagement console snap in to
change the drive letters back again, but I don't really want to do that
so I was wondering whether there's an easy way to solve this problem by
getting the app to look at the correct letter for the drive (ie) to get
it to look at the F: drive when I run the program from it's exe on the
C: drive, or do I have to re-install it to get it to look at the proper
drive? I'd really rather not have to swap the drive letters about unless
I really have to so any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in
advance!
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You know the easy way... You just have to do it.
Swapping the drive letters won't hurt anything, reinstalling the application
(depending on what it is) should fix it..
 
And that is the reason I immediately change the CD drive letter/s on any new
computer I get or build for others before installing any software. That way
if I install a HD later, I don't have to worry about this problem.


"Tim Lister"
 
LVTravel said:
And that is the reason I immediately change the CD drive letter/s on any new
computer I get or build for others before installing any software. That way
if I install a HD later, I don't have to worry about this problem.
Click to expand...
I actually managed to solve this problem by finding the .ini file for
the application in its main directory & editing the relevent lines
within it to ensure that the application "knew" that the CD drive was in
fact the F: drive!
Thanks for the advice though, as it's good to know what you can &
can't go about doing in Windows!
 
Boy, you sure were fortunate in being able to change the drive letter in the
ini file. Most programs would not accept the change. I have a few games
that refuse to run if they are not physically in the drive that they were
installed from. I have even tried to use programs such as virtual CD and
they also fail to run. I have even use hack programs on the cds and they
still won't run if the CD isn't in the drive and backups won't work either.
(Better not lose those CDs huh!)

On my previous post, I stated that I change the drive letter but I didn't
state what I change them to. Well, I use drive R for any drive that is read
only and W for any drive that will Write. Simple huh. Saves a lot of time
when I have to figure out which drive is showing in Explorer or other
programs.

"Tim Lister"
 
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