Drive changes

March 6, 2008

Simple to those that know how but I'm stuck and wonder if some kind person

can help. Since installing an external DVD-RW it has somehow assigned itself

to F Drive after two weeks of being G drive and my external hard drive has

now changed to G drive from F. This is no problem with anything I have stored

other than the Norton Ghost back-ups as it can't access them now they are on

a different drive letter. Anyone know how to solve the problem please? I can

access the storage drive to change the letter but the letter on the DVD-RW

drive can't be changed, well, at least I can't see any way of doing it. I've

right clicked but there's no facility and I've found it in Device Manager but

again, I can't change the drive letter.

Thanks in advance.

Skye

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March 6, 2008

Re: Drive changes

Skye wrote:

> Simple to those that know how but I'm stuck and wonder if some kind person

> can help. Since installing an external DVD-RW it has somehow assigned itself

> to F Drive after two weeks of being G drive and my external hard drive has

> now changed to G drive from F. This is no problem with anything I have stored

> other than the Norton Ghost back-ups as it can't access them now they are on

> a different drive letter. Anyone know how to solve the problem please? I can

> access the storage drive to change the letter but the letter on the DVD-RW

> drive can't be changed, well, at least I can't see any way of doing it. I've

> right clicked but there's no facility and I've found it in Device Manager but

> again, I can't change the drive letter.

> Thanks in advance.

> Skye

Right click on My Computer/Manage and you can do it in there.

Alias

March 6, 2008

Re: Drive changes

As I mentioned, there is no facility when right clicking to change the DVD-RW

drive, only the external hard drive letter can be changed and I need to put

this device back to F but I can't as the RW is using it.

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"Alias" wrote:

> Skye wrote:

> > Simple to those that know how but I'm stuck and wonder if some kind person

> > can help. Since installing an external DVD-RW it has somehow assigned itself

> > to F Drive after two weeks of being G drive and my external hard drive has

> > now changed to G drive from F. This is no problem with anything I have stored

> > other than the Norton Ghost back-ups as it can't access them now they are on

> > a different drive letter. Anyone know how to solve the problem please? I can

> > access the storage drive to change the letter but the letter on the DVD-RW

> > drive can't be changed, well, at least I can't see any way of doing it. I've

> > right clicked but there's no facility and I've found it in Device Manager but

> > again, I can't change the drive letter.

> > Thanks in advance.

> > Skye

>

> Right click on My Computer/Manage and you can do it in there.

>

> Alias

>

March 6, 2008

Re: Drive changes

Skye wrote:

> As I mentioned, there is no facility when right clicking to change the DVD-RW

> drive, only the external hard drive letter can be changed and I need to put

> this device back to F but I can't as the RW is using it.

My drives list the internal drives first, C, D, then the optical drives,

E, F, and if I connect the external drive, G and H. It's possible that

you can't arrange it any other way but try turning off your computer,

pulling the plug to the computer, opening the case and disconnecting

your DVD drive and boot up with the external drive connected. If it's

now F like you want, turn off the computer again, unplug it, reconnect

the DVD drive and turn on the computer with the external drive connected

and see if it solves it. My fear is that whenever you disconnect the

external drive again, it will revert to back to the DVD being F.

Alias

March 6, 2008

Re: Drive changes

Thanks for your help. The external hard drive which was F has not been

removed since installing the DVD-RW which installed to G. I've done a restore

to a previous time when everything was OK and it put everything right,

however, it seems that whenever I use the RW, it swaps to F leaving the

external hard drive on G for some reason. The Norton Backups are on F and

probably the easy way round the problem would be to get these backups to G

but I have no idea how to do that so that Norton can find them. Any clues on

this?

Skye

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"Alias" wrote:

> Skye wrote:

> > As I mentioned, there is no facility when right clicking to change the DVD-RW

> > drive, only the external hard drive letter can be changed and I need to put

> > this device back to F but I can't as the RW is using it.

>

> My drives list the internal drives first, C, D, then the optical drives,

> E, F, and if I connect the external drive, G and H. It's possible that

> you can't arrange it any other way but try turning off your computer,

> pulling the plug to the computer, opening the case and disconnecting

> your DVD drive and boot up with the external drive connected. If it's

> now F like you want, turn off the computer again, unplug it, reconnect

> the DVD drive and turn on the computer with the external drive connected

> and see if it solves it. My fear is that whenever you disconnect the

> external drive again, it will revert to back to the DVD being F.

>

> Alias

>

March 6, 2008

Re: Drive changes

Skye wrote:

> Thanks for your help. The external hard drive which was F has not been

> removed since installing the DVD-RW which installed to G. I've done a restore

> to a previous time when everything was OK and it put everything right,

> however, it seems that whenever I use the RW, it swaps to F leaving the

> external hard drive on G for some reason. The Norton Backups are on F and

> probably the easy way round the problem would be to get these backups to G

> but I have no idea how to do that so that Norton can find them. Any clues on

> this?

> Skye

Sorry, I won't put Norton on a computer and I am not familiar with it.

The normal way is internal drives/optical drives/external drives, in

that order. Personally, from what I've heard about Norton, I would

reformat and reinstall XP (the only true way to get rid of Norton) and

use Avast (free) for an anti virus and Comodo (free) for a firewall.

Back up everything you need to the external drive before reformatting

and reinstalling.

Alias

March 6, 2008

Re: Drive changes

Hmmm, AVAST not very high up in the pop charts!!

Anti-Virus Software Reviews 2008

Listed in order of rating

BitDefender

Kaspersky

ESET Nod32

#4 Trend Micro (PC-Cillin)

#5 F-Secure Anti-Virus

#6 McAfee VirusScan

#7 Norton AntiVirus

#8 AVG Anti-Virus Pro

#9 CA Antivirus

#10 Norman Virus Control

#11 AntiVirusKit

#12 AVAST!

#13 Panda Titanium

#14 F-Prot

#15 PC Tools AntiVirus

#16 ViRobot

#17 WinAntiVirus

N/A CyberScrub AntiVirus

N/A The Shield Antivirus

N/A Windows OneCare Live

Thanks anyway!!

Skye

"Alias" wrote:

> Skye wrote:

> > Thanks for your help. The external hard drive which was F has not been

> > removed since installing the DVD-RW which installed to G. I've done a restore

> > to a previous time when everything was OK and it put everything right,

> > however, it seems that whenever I use the RW, it swaps to F leaving the

> > external hard drive on G for some reason. The Norton Backups are on F and

> > probably the easy way round the problem would be to get these backups to G

> > but I have no idea how to do that so that Norton can find them. Any clues on

> > this?

> > Skye

>

> Sorry, I won't put Norton on a computer and I am not familiar with it.

> The normal way is internal drives/optical drives/external drives, in

> that order. Personally, from what I've heard about Norton, I would

> reformat and reinstall XP (the only true way to get rid of Norton) and

> use Avast (free) for an anti virus and Comodo (free) for a firewall.

> Back up everything you need to the external drive before reformatting

> and reinstalling.

>

> Alias

>

March 6, 2008

Re: Drive changes

Look up "Disk management" in Windows Help and Support, click the link

follow the steps.