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any ground rules for renaming drives?

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palominon00b

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well after partitioning my HD I did some major drive renaming .. and now my cd rom and burner dont want to respond, are there any set rules for naming the drives? (such as master named before slaves)

I cant figure this out

 
ah no shouldnt be any problems with the the order you named them in. Try going back to the way you had them before. Or try letting windows handle the drive letters.

As far as names go I alwasy choose cool ones. My big drives : Biguns and Gigantor. My slow drive : Fatass.
 
I am not having any problems with the HD, both partitions working fine ...

but for some reason the cd rom and burner are kinda non responsive now .. windows recognizes them as working fine but I get errors when I try to use them

for the cd rom, when I insert a CD and try to explore it .. I get an incorrect function error

the burner does not receive an error, but it just reads the CD as being blank
 
Take a look at Control Panel/System/Device Manager/CDROM/(each device)/Properties/Settings for both devices.

Be sure that each device has the boxes for Start and End Drive Letter filled in.

For example, if the CDROM is device E:, then the Start and End Drive Letter should both be set to E: for that device. If the other device is F:, then Start and End Drive Letter should be F: and F:.

I had similar problems when I renamed a zip drive to N: to be certain it was the last named device. Device Manager seems to be easily confused when a device is renamed.

Don't even attempt to assign different drive letters to any hard drive devices. DOS rule apply.

Hope this helps!
 
try renaming them to temp letters for example y and z. then go into device manager and delete the drives. reboot the computer, and hopefully windows will find the drives again.. then go back into diskmgnt.msc and rename them back to the lower letters you like.


i'm not sure that'll work......... but in seems like the windows thing to do.
 
wait this XP maybe W2K...... my suggestion was for XP, but should work for W2K i believe....(i'm on my dads 98 box so i can't check)
 
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