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Cd-roms stopped working and they are ahead one drive letter

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duragezic

Lifer
A couple days ago I merged my e: and f: partitions with PM 6 and ran the utility to make all references to those correct. But ever since then, my cdrw and cdrom are still g: and H: respectively. I thought since I'm only up to e: now with hard drive, that the cd-rom drives would automatically goto f: and h:. But they don't. And when I insert a disc into either of them it shows as if there is no disc in there.

What's going on?
 
Not at all familiar with partition magic, I didnt even know you could merge partitions without a format.

BUT, I would try changing your configuration around, pulling the cd drives, slaving one to the harddrive, ect... in an effort to ger the auto configure to work.

Not alot to go on, but better than another bump.... 😉
 
Maybe go into the BIOS and click Autodetect a few times to get the bios/mobo to "see" the diff drives? Just a suggestion. I had to do this when I slaved a HD to my CDRW. The bios wouldn't see the HD until I did the Autodetect thing. Good luck.
 
Did you try deleting the drives in device manager and let windows redetect them. This worked for a friend of mine after his drive letters moved.
 
It could also be that the cd'rom drives are asign to one spesific letter. This is found under device manager.
 
I tried messing with slave, master settings, tried the autodetect in the BIOS, and tried removing the drives and letting it redetect them.

Still doesn't work. 🙁

In PM 6, there is a drivemapper that makes references from old drives and allows you to select the new letter but I don't think that's what I want to do really and I don't know if it works for cd-roms either.

And about changing the letter from device manager. That must not be in win2k. I do remember seeing it in win98 though.

Any other ideas?

edit: I went to edit to say that my cdrw could still burn cds fine. But then I tried and both cdroms now read discs correctly. Weird, they didn't earlier today and I tried them several times using different discs.

So now all that's left is the drive letters aren't correct but that is no biggie.
 
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