How to assign drive letters

Hi all. Is there a way to assign permanent drive letters in Win98se?My
zip drive uses k drive. I got a MP3 player for xmas and when I plug it
in to load it up with music it also tries to take drive k. If I pull
the plug on the zip drive the MP3 will load up ok. I also have the
same problem with an external hard drive. I uses drive L . If I also
plug my jump drive in at the same time it also tries to take drive L
and my pc will crash. These are all usb devices and I would think they
would be assigned different drive letters when they are connected.
Would appreciate any advice. Thanks

Mike,

First of all I would boot in Safe Mode with no external drives attached
and no disk in ZIP drive, enter Control Panel -- System -- Device
Manager tab, expand CDROM branch, and delete all non-existent drives
here; don't restart at this point, and do the same with 'Disk drives'
branch.

If there are the duplicate disks here -- delete not only the
non-existent part of the duplicate -- but the duplicates in whole,
including the existent drives: after restart Win98se will re-detect them
(probably you'll be asked about extra restart after that; confirm it
then). Restart.

After final restart is finished, attach your first external device,
enter Control Panel -- System -- Device Manager tab, expand 'Disk
drives' branch again, find this new device, double click it, and change
its letter on 'Settings' tab (the first and the last letters have to be
the same) as you wish. Mark "Removable' checkbox here, if possible.

Restart, make sure the device is working properly with the new letter,
then attach the next device, and do the same.

And have in view, that if ZIP disk is inserted while booting -- in some
systems that messes ZIP drive letter. Sometimes marking ZIP-drive as
'Removable' (if possible) in its settings helps.
--
Mikhail Zhilin
http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
Sorry, no technical support by e-mail.
Please reply to the newsgroups only.
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On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 01:47:14 GMT, Mike Hunt
wrote:

Hi all. Is there a way to assign permanent drive letters in Win98se?My
zip drive uses k drive. I got a MP3 player for xmas and when I plug it
in to load it up with music it also tries to take drive k. If I pull
the plug on the zip drive the MP3 will load up ok. I also have the
same problem with an external hard drive. I uses drive L . If I also
plug my jump drive in at the same time it also tries to take drive L
and my pc will crash. These are all usb devices and I would think they
would be assigned different drive letters when they are connected.
Would appreciate any advice. Thanks

On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 13:55:07 +0300, Mikhail Zhilin
wrote:

Mike,

First of all I would boot in Safe Mode with no external drives attached
and no disk in ZIP drive, enter Control Panel -- System -- Device
Manager tab, expand CDROM branch, and delete all non-existent drives
here; don't restart at this point, and do the same with 'Disk drives'
branch.

If there are the duplicate disks here -- delete not only the
non-existent part of the duplicate -- but the duplicates in whole,
including the existent drives: after restart Win98se will re-detect them
(probably you'll be asked about extra restart after that; confirm it
then). Restart.

After final restart is finished, attach your first external device,
enter Control Panel -- System -- Device Manager tab, expand 'Disk
drives' branch again, find this new device, double click it, and change
its letter on 'Settings' tab (the first and the last letters have to be
the same) as you wish. Mark "Removable' checkbox here, if possible.

Restart, make sure the device is working properly with the new letter,
then attach the next device, and do the same.

And have in view, that if ZIP disk is inserted while booting -- in some
systems that messes ZIP drive letter. Sometimes marking ZIP-drive as
'Removable' (if possible) in its settings helps.


Thanks for the help. After my first post I kept playing with it. Even
found a freeware prog called letter assigner. It seemed to work until
yesterday morning then pack to the same old crap. I did find a
solution. I got rid of the zip drive. Put it on another pc. Now the
drive letters stay with what they are assigned to. With all the
storage options I have I can do without the zip. So all seems well for
know. Thanks again!!

Mike, my first move was to recommend to get rid of ZIP drive, because
these days they are not as necessary as a few years ago... grin
--
Mikhail Zhilin
http://www.aha.ru/~mwz
Sorry, no technical support by e-mail.
Please reply to the newsgroups only.
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On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 13:18:03 GMT, Mike Hunt
wrote:

On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 13:55:07 +0300, Mikhail Zhilin
wrote:

Mike,

First of all I would boot in Safe Mode with no external drives attached
and no disk in ZIP drive, enter Control Panel -- System -- Device
Manager tab, expand CDROM branch, and delete all non-existent drives
here; don't restart at this point, and do the same with 'Disk drives'
branch.
...
And have in view, that if ZIP disk is inserted while booting -- in some
systems that messes ZIP drive letter. Sometimes marking ZIP-drive as
'Removable' (if possible) in its settings helps.


Thanks for the help. After my first post I kept playing with it. Even
found a freeware prog called letter assigner. It seemed to work until
yesterday morning then pack to the same old crap. I did find a
solution. I got rid of the zip drive. Put it on another pc. Now the
drive letters stay with what they are assigned to. With all the
storage options I have I can do without the zip. So all seems well for
know. Thanks again!!