T
Tom Land
While trying to get my new DVD+/-RW drive to work, I came
across a drive letter assignment curiosity. My computer
is set up as follows:
IDE 0 - Master = 40 Gig hard disk #0
IDE 0 - Slave = SONY DVD reader
IDE 1 - Master = 40 Gig hard disk #1
IDE 1 - Slave = _NEC DVD+/-RW writer
On boot-up, the BIOS routine recognizes all the drives in
the order shown above, and the Local_Machine section of
the Registry also indicates the correct order, but
Explorer (and other programs) show drive letters as
follows:
Hard disk #0 = C:
DVD Reader = D:
DVD Writer = E:
Hard disk #1 = F:
My DVD writer is also "demoted" to CD status, according
to the icon that is assigned to it! I suspect this drive
lettering anomaly is the reason I can't get my DVD writer
to work.
I have the latest BIOS update in my Pentium III machine
and I did a clean install of WinXP, but the problem
persists. Anyone know of information on how XP assigns
drive letters? It is obviously different from the way
Win2000 does.
across a drive letter assignment curiosity. My computer
is set up as follows:
IDE 0 - Master = 40 Gig hard disk #0
IDE 0 - Slave = SONY DVD reader
IDE 1 - Master = 40 Gig hard disk #1
IDE 1 - Slave = _NEC DVD+/-RW writer
On boot-up, the BIOS routine recognizes all the drives in
the order shown above, and the Local_Machine section of
the Registry also indicates the correct order, but
Explorer (and other programs) show drive letters as
follows:
Hard disk #0 = C:
DVD Reader = D:
DVD Writer = E:
Hard disk #1 = F:
My DVD writer is also "demoted" to CD status, according
to the icon that is assigned to it! I suspect this drive
lettering anomaly is the reason I can't get my DVD writer
to work.
I have the latest BIOS update in my Pentium III machine
and I did a clean install of WinXP, but the problem
persists. Anyone know of information on how XP assigns
drive letters? It is obviously different from the way
Win2000 does.