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"CD Drive help"

I'm obviously really think when it comes to computers but I was wondering how I'd go about switching the identities of my 2 CD Drives.

I want to get my D Drive to be E and my E Drive to be D. I hope that makes sense.

If anyone elso needs help doing this:

Select the drive from the device list in the Device Manager, and click Properties. A property sheet opens containing a property page that shows the drive letters available for this device. For a CD-ROM drive, you can alter the range of possible drive letters (for example, E: through H:).

The drive letters used by a particular controller are stored in the drive controller's subkey of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Enum branch (use regedit). Each of these subkeys contains the CurrentDriveLetterAssignment value set to the name of the assigned drives The assignment of a drive letter to a specific piece of hardware involves vendor-specific information, so you may need detailed advice from the vendor about how to change a drive letter.

Well, my brother fixed it. I don't know how but it's all hunky dory now. Thanks for your help.

Grandprix wrote:
> I don't know where that would be. I don't even know if Windows 98 has
> it.

It would be in the control panel, well it is in XP. Maybe look in the help on Win 98 or maybe search some other forums to see if it has it.

I don't know where that would be. I don't even know if Windows 98 has it.

I dont know if you have it in Win 98 but in XP you have Administrative tools. Open up the computer mangament shortcut and then go into storage management and then into the sub heading disk management. In here it shows your Hard Disks as well as the CD drives. Right click on the CD drive and a change letter option will appear. Remember to swap D and E around you cant just do the first one as E or D as the other drive will be the same. You need to set the first one to another letter e.g F then set the 2nd to the letter you want and then set the 1st to the other letter you want. Hope that makes sense.

It's just that some of the older games that I play have some kind of wierd thing that goes on where it becomes obsessed with Drive D. I prefer using Drive E because it's a better drive.

Of course that wouldnt work.

Switching the master/slave would do the trick though.

I think.

You could switch around the way that they are plugged in.

Windows 98. I just want to swap one one CD drive (D) for the other CD drive (E).

What operating system?