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Old September 1st 05, 12:30 AM
Chris
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Default CD rom drive missing

Hello. I used to have a Zip100 drive(D) that I uninstalled. I have a CD Rom
(E) and a RW CD(F). When double clicking on my computer I still see the
zip100(D) and CDR(E) is missing. The weired thing is that when right clicking
on the zip100(D) and choosing Eject it opens up the CDR(E) that the icon is
missing. What is going on? Any thoughts? Thanks for your suggestions.
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Old September 1st 05, 01:08 AM
Mike M
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Boot to Safe Mode, open the Device Manager and delete the entry for the
Zip drive and all optical drives.

Boot back into Normal Mode and let the system redetect your optical
devices. Now open the Device Manager and in turn select the Properties
for each of your optical drives and allocate to each the preferred drive
letter. Reboot. Explorer should now show each drive with the letters you
have chosen.
--
Mike Maltby



Chris wrote:

Hello. I used to have a Zip100 drive(D) that I uninstalled. I have a
CD Rom (E) and a RW CD(F). When double clicking on my computer I
still see the zip100(D) and CDR(E) is missing. The weired thing is
that when right clicking on the zip100(D) and choosing Eject it opens
up the CDR(E) that the icon is missing. What is going on? Any
thoughts? Thanks for your suggestions.


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Old September 1st 05, 01:34 AM
Chris
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Mike thanks for the reply! I followed your instructions and when came back to
the normal mode Zip100 was still there but F is replaced by E(CD) and CDRW(F)
is missing. How do I allocate letters in the device manager? In their
properties there is no mention of assigning letters.

"Mike M" wrote:

Boot to Safe Mode, open the Device Manager and delete the entry for the
Zip drive and all optical drives.

Boot back into Normal Mode and let the system redetect your optical
devices. Now open the Device Manager and in turn select the Properties
for each of your optical drives and allocate to each the preferred drive
letter. Reboot. Explorer should now show each drive with the letters you
have chosen.
--
Mike Maltby



Chris wrote:

Hello. I used to have a Zip100 drive(D) that I uninstalled. I have a
CD Rom (E) and a RW CD(F). When double clicking on my computer I
still see the zip100(D) and CDR(E) is missing. The weired thing is
that when right clicking on the zip100(D) and choosing Eject it opens
up the CDR(E) that the icon is missing. What is going on? Any
thoughts? Thanks for your suggestions.



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Old September 1st 05, 01:57 AM
Chris
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Mike thanks! You are a life saver as usual! Ignore my last message, I was an
air head then somehow. It is fixed now and the Zip100 is gone. Somehow the
setting would not show the last time I was questioning where to put the
letters. Thanks again.

By the way, how come this page freezes on me whenever I am on it. It freezes
every so often and comes out of it in 5-10 seconds.

"Chris" wrote:

Hello. I used to have a Zip100 drive(D) that I uninstalled. I have a CD Rom
(E) and a RW CD(F). When double clicking on my computer I still see the
zip100(D) and CDR(E) is missing. The weired thing is that when right clicking
on the zip100(D) and choosing Eject it opens up the CDR(E) that the icon is
missing. What is going on? Any thoughts? Thanks for your suggestions.

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Old September 1st 05, 09:14 AM
Mike M
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Chris,

I'm pleased to read you've now managed to fix your problems with your
optical drives.

By the way, how come this page freezes on me whenever I am on it. It
freezes every so often and comes out of it in 5-10 seconds.


Try using a news reader such as Outlook Express to access these newsgroups
rather than using the more than a little deficient web interface you are
using.

For example clicking on the following URL
news://msnews.microsoft.com/microsof...owsme.hardware
will open your default news reader (by default Outlook Express), add the
Microsoft MSNews news server account (msnews.microsoft.com) and open this
newsgroup (microsoft.public.windowsme.hardware).

Cheers.
--
Mike Maltby



Chris wrote:

Mike thanks! You are a life saver as usual! Ignore my last message, I
was an air head then somehow. It is fixed now and the Zip100 is gone.
Somehow the setting would not show the last time I was questioning
where to put the letters. Thanks again.

By the way, how come this page freezes on me whenever I am on it. It
freezes every so often and comes out of it in 5-10 seconds.


 




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