Just FYI, When I added my second HD I got tired of having to point
install software to the CD on E: so I went into the CMOS (On the chip:
Award PCI/PNP 586 dated 1995) and made the CD D: and the second HD E:.
 If you want I'll take a look at the CMOS settings and get all the
particulars for you.

John

-----Original Message-----
From:   Patrick Meyer [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Friday, December 11, 1998 11:49 AM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: [PCBUILD] CD Drive Letter

At , you wrote:
>At 01:15 AM 12/11/98 +1100, you wrote:
>>I'm going to add a 2nd HDD. So I'm wondering is there anyway I can
keep
>>my current CD driver letter unchange? I know the 2nd HDD probably
will
>>take letter D, but by this way I have to make all CD path change in
>>registry by myself, so does anyone know a way I can keep D for CD
and
>>let new HDD take letter E?

There is no way for a hard drive letter to be above a CD drive letter.
I
know I've tried long and hard.  Best bet is to move the CD letter out
to M
so you room for growth. Tht way you can add zip drive, sparq, more
hard
drives and CD will still be the same letter.

According to my understadning of how drive letters are assigned:
Boot get's C,  then next real partition gets D, then extended
partitions,
then removeable drives and cd's.

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