Hopefully not going to sidetrack this thread, but if 'Z' is used for CD-ROM, what letter does
virtual drive take when required? (Do XP or 2K use virtual drives?)...not important, just curious...

Al Thompson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Douglas Simmons"
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Retaining my CD-Rom Drive Letter


> To add on to Rick's advice, when I first get a new machine
> or install the operating system on a new machine, the
> first thing I do is to change the CDROM drive letter to
> "Z".  That way the CDROM drive letter will not change as
> new drives are added or partitions changed.  All programs
> that need the CDROM drive letter for data will then be
> installed from "Z:" drive and if CD's with data need to be
> loaded for the program to function, the drive letter will
> always be the same.
>
> Doug

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