Guest Rob Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 My DVD RW drive loads by default as E:, the lowest available letter. I want to use E: for something else, so I assigned it the letter Z: using Administrative Tools. But on reboot it reverts to E:. A virtual drive created by the InstantWrite software has the same problem, i.e. I cannot permanently reassign the drive letter, but another DVD drive which was earlier assigned to Y: is still Y:. I can successfully reassign the drive letters of the various hard disk partitions. They do not revert on reboot. I have just reinstalled my whole system. I had the problem before reinstallation, but as far as I can recall it was not there at first in the new installation. It is now. TIA for any help. Rob
Guest Nightowl Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 Re: Assigned new drive letter to DVD drive. Reverts to old letter on reboot. Rob <f8YRm9@spambobLEAVETHISBITOUT.net> wrote on Thu, 5 Jul 2007: >My DVD RW drive loads by default as E:, the lowest available letter. I >want to use E: for something else, so I assigned it the letter Z: >using Administrative Tools. But on reboot it reverts to E:. > >A virtual drive created by the InstantWrite software has the same >problem, i.e. I cannot permanently reassign the drive letter, but >another DVD drive which was earlier assigned to Y: is still Y:. > >I can successfully reassign the drive letters of the various hard disk >partitions. They do not revert on reboot. > >I have just reinstalled my whole system. I had the problem before >reinstallation, but as far as I can recall it was not there at first >in the new installation. It is now. Hi Rob Are you perhaps using Zone Alarm? This was a known problem in version 6.5.x.x; I'm not sure about later ones. If you think this might apply to you, have a look here: http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs/board/message?board.id=gen&message.id=37443 -- Nightowl
Guest Uwe Sieber Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 Re: Assigned new drive letter to DVD drive. Reverts to old letteron reboot. Re: Assigned new drive letter to DVD drive. Reverts to old letteron reboot. It's a known problem with ZoneAlarm 6.5. Norton GoBack is also suspected to cause this. Uwe Rob wrote: > My DVD RW drive loads by default as E:, the lowest available letter. I > want to use E: for something else, so I assigned it the letter Z: > using Administrative Tools. But on reboot it reverts to E:. > > A virtual drive created by the InstantWrite software has the same > problem, i.e. I cannot permanently reassign the drive letter, but > another DVD drive which was earlier assigned to Y: is still Y:. > > I can successfully reassign the drive letters of the various hard disk > partitions. They do not revert on reboot. > > I have just reinstalled my whole system. I had the problem before > reinstallation, but as far as I can recall it was not there at first > in the new installation. It is now. > > TIA for any help. > > Rob
Guest Zilbandy Posted July 5, 2007 Posted July 5, 2007 Re: Assigned new drive letter to DVD drive. Reverts to old letter on reboot. On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:53:56 +0200, Uwe Sieber <mail@uwe-sieber.de> wrote: >It's a known problem with ZoneAlarm 6.5. Norton GoBack is also >suspected to cause this. > Apparently ZA 6.5.737 fixed the problem. I was able to change my dvd drive letter and after rebooting, the new drive letter was showing correctly. >Uwe > > >Rob wrote: >> My DVD RW drive loads by default as E:, the lowest available letter. I >> want to use E: for something else, so I assigned it the letter Z: >> using Administrative Tools. But on reboot it reverts to E:. -- Zilbandy
Guest Uwe Sieber Posted July 6, 2007 Posted July 6, 2007 Re: Assigned new drive letter to DVD drive. Reverts to old letteron reboot. Re: Assigned new drive letter to DVD drive. Reverts to old letteron reboot. Zilbandy wrote: > >> It's a known problem with ZoneAlarm 6.5. Norton GoBack is also >> suspected to cause this. >> > > Apparently ZA 6.5.737 fixed the problem. I was able to change my dvd > drive letter and after rebooting, the new drive letter was showing > correctly. Thanks for the info!
Guest Rob Posted July 6, 2007 Posted July 6, 2007 Re: Assigned new drive letter to DVD drive. Reverts to old letter on reboot. Yes, ZA, it was, though I was using version 7. I removed it from the startup directory, but that was not enough. I uninstalled it and my drives are not reverting. So, what is a good alternative free firewall? Thanks all. Rob On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:34:24 -0700, Zilbandy <zil@zilbandyREMOVETHIS.com> wrote: >On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:53:56 +0200, Uwe Sieber <mail@uwe-sieber.de> >wrote: > >>It's a known problem with ZoneAlarm 6.5. Norton GoBack is also >>suspected to cause this. >> > >Apparently ZA 6.5.737 fixed the problem. I was able to change my dvd >drive letter and after rebooting, the new drive letter was showing >correctly. > >>Uwe >> >> >>Rob wrote: >>> My DVD RW drive loads by default as E:, the lowest available letter. I >>> want to use E: for something else, so I assigned it the letter Z: >>> using Administrative Tools. But on reboot it reverts to E:.
Guest Zilbandy Posted July 6, 2007 Posted July 6, 2007 Re: Assigned new drive letter to DVD drive. Reverts to old letter on reboot. On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:57:09 +0100, Rob <f8YRm9@spambobLEAVETHISBITOUT.net> wrote: >Yes, ZA, it was, though I was using version 7. I removed it from the >startup directory, but that was not enough. I uninstalled it and my >drives are not reverting. > >So, what is a good alternative free firewall? Well, now that your drives are like you want them, may I recommend ZA. Reinstall it and it should be happy. :) -- Zilbandy
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