not enough drive letter in windows

[Guest]

I'm running some software that allow me to copy contents
of cd's to my hard drive and then assign a virtual cd rom
drive letter to that data. I'm doing for some pc's used
by children at a locat library. They come in and play
games and at a certain point the game asks for the next
cd. This way the virtual cd is readly available with out
having to actually insert a cd.

My problem is I have so many cd's there is not enough
drive letters to assign to them. Is there any way to add
additional drive letters to windows? Obviosly, There are
no additional letters in the alphabet so I would have to
add and # to the letter. For example: A1

 

[Terry]

I'm running some software that allow me to copy contents
of cd's to my hard drive and then assign a virtual cd rom
drive letter to that data. I'm doing for some pc's used
by children at a locat library. They come in and play
games and at a certain point the game asks for the next
cd. This way the virtual cd is readly available with out
having to actually insert a cd.

My problem is I have so many cd's there is not enough
drive letters to assign to them. Is there any way to add
additional drive letters to windows? Obviosly, There are
no additional letters in the alphabet so I would have to
add and # to the letter. For example: A1

Unfortunately we only have 26 drive letters available. Mapping only
allows drives A thru Z.

 

[suyao]

If the file system on your harddrive is NTFS, then you can put the new
volume into an NTFS folder, so that it won't use "drive letter A~Z"

 

[Kenny]

I have tested a similar program (if not the same) as you are using. Its
called VIRTUAL DRIVE
(VirtualDrive Personal 8).
What you can do with virtual drive is create the virtual cds (images of the
real cds), and then assign a letter to eatch one of them.
In otherwords if you want 10000 cds you can (if you have the space) all you
have to do is assign a different
volume to the drive letter instead of inserting the real cd.
THis is done by an explorer like menu, so its easy to do, only a few minutes
to swap the virtual cd.

Here is infromation:
http://www.farstone.com/home/en/shtml/vdpoverview.shtml

there is a trial on the site.

If you need more help just post here...

Kenny

 

[Kenny]

How does VirtualDrive work?
VirtualDrive does two basic things: (1) It can copy an entire CD/DVD into a
single, compressed disk-image file that resides on your hard drive, and (2)
It contains a driver that fools Windows into treating the disk-image file as
if it were a physical CD/DVD running in a physical CD/DVD drive.

VirtualDrive lets you create up to 23 virtual CD/DVD-ROM drives and an
unlimited number of CD/DVDs. Since you have 23 CD/DVD-ROM drives on your
computer instead of just one, you can run more than one CD/DVD-ROM
simultaneously.

So, after you have installed VirtualDrive, all you have to do is insert the
CD/DVD-ROM disc that you want to copy into your CD/DVD-ROM drive and click
'Build' on the VirtualDrive interface. In minutes, the virtual image of the
CD/DVD-ROM, called a 'VCD', will appear. To run it, just insert it into one
of your virtual drives.