CD Rom drive letter change

[Guest]

When I originally installed Windows, it automatically made my CD-rom drive my
D: drive. I added another partition and changed my CD-rom drive to E:. Now
when I add windows components that require the windows CD, the system doesn't
automatically find it "i.e. its looking on D:" is there a way via the
registry or some other management tool to correct this? Its not a huge issue,
but its a pain.

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

When I originally installed Windows, it automatically made my CD-rom
drive my D: drive. I added another partition and changed my CD-rom
drive to E:. Now when I add windows components that require the
windows CD, the system doesn't automatically find it "i.e. its
looking on D:" is there a way via the registry or some other
management tool to correct this? Its not a huge issue, but its a pain.

You can change it in the registry -

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup - modify SourcePath to
point at the new drive letter.

 

[Jud]

When I originally installed Windows, it automatically made my CD-rom drive my
D: drive. I added another partition and changed my CD-rom drive to E:. Now
when I add windows components that require the windows CD, the system doesn't
automatically find it "i.e. its looking on D:" is there a way via the
registry or some other management tool to correct this? Its not a huge issue,
but its a pain.

Right click my Computer

Manage
Disk Management
Now rename the drives how you want

Jud

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Right click my Computer

Jud

True, but this isn't what the OP was asking to do - and I'd stick with the
drive letters as they are, if it were my system, just to keep things tidy.