Re assingning drive letters to CD & DVD drives.

[P. Taine]

I have a Dell machine which came with one HD plus a CD drive and a DVD drive. I
shortly added a second HD, and at that point the HDs were "C" & "D", while the
CD & DVD drives were "E" & "F".

I have just added a third HD and it became "G". I would like to move the media
drives down, to "F" & "G", and have the third drive become the "E" drive. I
can't simply reassign the HD to "E", because of the preassigned media drive
letters, and I can't find how to reassign those. (I know I'll have to
temporaraly make the thrid HD the "U" drive or some such.)

Can anyone give me a hint?

 

[Unknown]

Go to control panel ---administrative tools--computer management---disk
management--and change there.
Suggest you use r & w for CD's (read and write) and c,d,e for hard drives.

 

[JS]

Right click on My Computer, select Manage, then under the Storage option
select Disk Management.

Now in the lower right hand pane right click on the CD/DVD Drive letter that
you want to make available
and select Change Drive Letter and Paths. Then click the Change button and
pick an unused letter (from the pull down list) near the end like R and S as
a temporary drive letter assignment. Do this for your other CD/DVD drive
also.
Both letters (E and F) should now be unused and can now be assigned to the
new drive.

Now change the letters of the third drive to the letters you made available.
Finally change the DVD/CD drive letter from R and S to F and G.

JS

 

[P. Taine]

Thank you. Since the CD/DVD drives didn't appear in the upper right pane I made
the (wrong) assumption that they would not be listed in the lower right pane. I
really should look and everything rather than assuming consistancy!

 

[JS]

You're Welcome.

JS

Thank you. Since the CD/DVD drives didn't appear in the upper right pane
I made
the (wrong) assumption that they would not be listed in the lower right
pane. I
really should look and everything rather than assuming consistancy!