Reassignment of the CD ROM Drive Letter Does Not Survive Reboot

[Guest]

I prefer to have my CD-ROM drive set as z:. I reset the drive letter to z
(using the "Disk Manager" and the CD-ROM responds to its new name -- i.e.
until I reboot after which it reverts to its natural drive letter.

When I used Win 2K the reassignment of the drive letter persistent through
reboots and, *occasionally*, so does XP Pro but this behavior is rare.

What can I do to make the drive letter reassignment permanent?

 

[Uwe Sieber]

I prefer to have my CD-ROM drive set as z:. I reset the drive letter to z
(using the "Disk Manager" and the CD-ROM responds to its new name -- i.e.
until I reboot after which it reverts to its natural drive letter.

When I used Win 2K the reassignment of the drive letter persistent through
reboots and, *occasionally*, so does XP Pro but this behavior is rare.

What can I do to make the drive letter reassignment permanent?

Sounds like the ZoneAlarm 6.5 problem:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbtrouble_e.html#zonealarm


Uwe

 

[Guest]

Uwe, thanks for the reply.

Unfortunately I've never heard of ZoneAlarm and, obviously, I have never
installed it.

The problem must, therefore, lie elsewhere.

 

[Unknown]

A simple method to accomplish this is to delete the drive and re-install it.

 

[Guest]

Thanks for the response.

I am not quite sure what "delete the drive and re-install it" means.

Is it sufficient to use the Device Manager to "remove" the drive followed by
"Add or Remove Hardware" to reinstall it or, must I physically remove the
drive?

 

[Unknown]

Yes---use device manager. No need to physically remove it.

 

[Guest]

Again thanks for the reply.

I did as you suggested, in fact I did it twice, nonetheless the problem
persists!

 

[Unknown]

Are you doing the following?
Click start---control panel---administrative tools
click computer management---click disk management
right click on the CD you want to change
select 'change drive letter and path'

 

[Guest]

Yes, precisely that! And I have to do it far too often -- darn it! It is
very frustrating.

 

[Unknown]

I must admit I'm baffled. However my approach to this type of problem is
this:
1. Using administrative services clear out any logged information, set the
CD address to Z, reboot, then check the logged information to determine what
happened.
OR:
Click start run --type in msconfig--OK--then remove the X's from all items
in the start up folder.
set the CD address, reboot and see if it reverted to the original address.
I.E Is some program on start-up changing the address?

 

[Unknown]

Do you by chance have a CD program that is being loaded when you boot up,
that changes the Disk letter back to what it was??