is this normal/can i fix it?

[God of Black Flame]

alright, this is gonna take some set-up for me to get to the problem, so hang in there.

alright, so my computer had 2 optical drives (the cd/dvd-rw's in my sig) and i ended up having to use DAEMON tools to add a virtual drive;only way i could play Far Cry because my disc 3 was completely corrupt, so i dl'd a copy from the internet (legal because i own the game) and could only make it work through a virtual drive "hack". the virtual drive became F but now i've put back in my old DVD drive so that i'm able to driect copies of dvd's with my burner. but my physical dvd drive became G. even after i disable the virtual drive and restart without it, (or disable the virtual drive, unplug the physical drive and restart with just the 2, then power down, pluyg the phys drive back in, adn then turn it back on without the virtual drive) my dvd drive remains labeled G. it may seem trivial, but with them labeled this way i often forget which drive is which between E, F and G when it comes to bruning something and figuring out which drive i actually want to output to. anyone know of a way i can get my physical drive to be F?

 

[DaShit]

Um...it's not really a problem, but you could try to uninstall deamon tools, uninstall the real drive and install it again....

I know theres an easyier way but i forgot, ill edit this post if i find out.

 

[PC eye]

To reassign a drive letter in XP you would first go into the Control Panel and double click on the Administrative Tools icon to open a new window. In the next window you then double click on the Computer Management icon and look for the Disk Management on the left hand side of the next window. As you look at the left you will see drives listed in a small window with a greyed out area just below it. You are not concerned about the darker area but right clicking on the drives listed to choose the "change drive letter or designation" option there to select the preferred and presently unused letter. When one drive is using let's E when you want a second drive to use that letter you would first change the current E drive to like H, I, J, or some other unused letter to take a second hard drive or dvd drive, zip drive, etc and assign E to that specific and then move the displaced drive to another letter of choice. This takes effect fully after exiting and restarting the system.

 

[God of Black Flame]

awesome, that worked, thanks. also, it seemed to have fixed some other things, my DVD-RW would occasionaly show up in My Computer as a cd-rom or dvd-rom or something else, but now it's properly identified as a DVD-RW at all times, w007!

 

[PC eye]

Well just remember "shaken not stirred" there. You may to keep this MS link for future reference however in the event you need this during a drive swapout or when building a new system. Sometimes you have to shift the drive letters around a few times when you have three drives instead of one or two along with the hard drive. That's where the letters J, K, L, and M can be a big help when trying to configure what you want for D, E, and whichever.

Well the link was supposed to here. Let's look again at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307844

 

[DaShit]

awesome, that worked, thanks. also, it seemed to have fixed some other things, my DVD-RW would occasionaly show up in My Computer as a cd-rom or dvd-rom or something else, but now it's properly identified as a DVD-RW at all times, w007!

it did that because when u put a cd in it it says CD ROM but when you put a DVD in it say DVD+RW, its normal

 

[PC eye]

it did that because when u put a cd in it it says CD ROM but when you put a DVD in it say DVD+RW, its normal

It wasn't because a disk was put in one of the drives. The drive information shown in the MyComputer window was initially incorrect due to the drives not being detected properly by Windows. The drive letter reassignment seems to have had a corrective effect where the drive types are now being shown.