How do I change cdrom drive letter assignment in WIN2000?

[aks93]

Im using win2000 professional, and my drives assignments are: C,D,E,F,G

C,D are my cd and dvd drives, F and G are my data and Games drives.

How do I change F and G to D and E and make D and E X and Y?

For some reason, Win2k will let me change F and G to anything after G but not before F. Also D and E are fixed, no drive letter changes possible !???

Thanks

 

[aks93]

GroundZer0:

HD is set to master on its own ide cable.
CD is set to master and dvd to slave on second ide cable.

 

[aks93]

lol just realised this question sounds more like an algebra quiz , let me simplify:

How can you change the cdrom and dvd drive assigments within win2k to something else other than what win2k gives you at installation. I tried it, but the boxes for drive assigment changing are greyed out. Perhaps because I have partitions after them?

Thanks

 

[aks93]

Ground Zer0: I havent done sp2. Could that be my problem? I think my problem could be that I installed win 2k first on C: and no partitions, then used partition magic 6 to create partitions for data and games. Im at college now, when I go home Ill try what you said: "You need to enable the admin controls to see them under the programs box" - although I was logged in as admin when I tried this unsucessfully.

 

[aks93]

GroundZer0 - thanks - hopefully this will work

 

[RichieZ]

Hmm I have this same problem
C: HD
D: DVD
E: CD ROM
F: HD
G: CDR

I enabled the admin tools and went into comp managemnt, I got to storage but the only thing I can do is see the properties which is just the info about the drive, no place to change letter assignments. I am log in as administrator

 

[waytoomuchcoffee]

Remember that the system will first assign a letter to all primary partitions on all hard disks in the system (starting with C), before it will assign any letters to any logical volumes (in extended partitions) on any hard disk.

 

[RichieZ]

ah whoops I was on logical drives! Oh well no problem chahing letters for me. I just like my HD's letter to be sequential, the secondary partition (F) just stores DVD's b4 they are about to be DIVX'd