Re: Removing CD Drive...

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Bitstring <0C9zwXAUczEHFwxa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, from the wonderful person
thoss <usenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said
At 23:45:14 on Sun, 14 Oct 2007 Trev opined:-

Why not leave it as F it will not change by its self.

I wish that were so. I have a laptop with a DVD drive set as V:. Twice
now Win 2K has taken it on itself to rename this E:.

Does anybody know how I can stop it?

Downgrade to WinXP?

Seriously though, CD/DVD drives are a bit different, it not being
possible to write unique identifiers to them. Just bite your tongue and
use diskmgmt to change the letter back again.

I've never had win2k re-assign optical drive letters after my using
disk management to give the DVDROM drive the letter R and the DVRW drive
the letter W (and the same applies to the vitual cd/dvd rom drives).

It's true that win2k will remember drive letter allocations to
removable drives (even the external EXT2 formatted hard drives) but I
find this to be an asset rather than a liability.

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