Lori,
Your CD-ROM drive likely became your E drive. A zip drive is treated like
a hard drive by your operating system. It will always follow the last hard
drive letter - bumping your CD-ROM drive letter when you install it.
For this reason, I always set the CD-ROM drive letter high (I use M).
However, if you change your CD-ROM drive letter, you're going to get
confused when you find that some programs, etc. won't be able to find files
they need off of a CD-ROM because your registry "remembers" your CD-ROM as
drive D. Because it requires registry editing to correct this, I'll just
explain here how to keep your CD-ROM drive as drive D and force your ZIP
drive to take a higher drive letter.
To reserve drive letter D for your CD-ROM drive, you'll need to change your
CD-ROM drive properties in DEVICE MANAGER. *Before* you add the ZIP drive
again, do the following first:
Right click on MY COMPUTER
Select PROPERTIES
Click on the DEVICE MANAGER tab
Click the + next to CDROM
Click on PROPERTIES (at the bottom)
Click on the SETTINGS tab
At the bottom you'll see RESERVED DRIVE LETTERS
Click on the drop-down arrow and assign the CD-ROM drive letter D. Do this
for both the START DRIVE LETTER and the END DRIVE LETTER.
Now, go back and add your ZIP drive.
After you've added the ZIP drive, go through these same steps and assign
the START DRIVE LETTER and the END DRIVE LETTER for your ZIP drive as drive
E
Good Luck!
Joan Rapier
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-----Original Message-----
From: Lori Crouch [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, April 26, 1999 3:36 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [PCSOFT] Zip Disk Takes Over CD Rom Drive
My system had been acting unstable (losing its color, crashing constantly
and without reason) so I thought I'd get a zip drive, copy all my files to
it, and start from ground zero, reformatting the hard drive and
reinstalling Windows and my other programs.
I bought the zip drive used. When I went through the installation
process, the program installed itself into my "D" drive, overriding my CD
Rom. I can only assume the previous owner did not have a CD Rom drive and
the program was installed in his "D" drive.
I've since uninstalled the zip drive and got my CD Rom back, but would
still like to install it, back up my files and reinstall Windows 98.
1. Any suggestions on installing the zip drive?
2. Where can I get good directions for reformatting and reinstalling
Windows? OR
3. Recommend a good computer tech in the Westlake Village/Thousand Oaks
area of California.
I don't like others fooling around with my computer, but I may have made
that inevitable. :-P
Lori Crouch
CTX 486
running Pentium II Processor
32 MB RAM
Windows 98
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