Much as I regret it ive been forced to put XP back on my on line computer.

Now I have 2 problems with the dam thing and I dunno what to do.

1 I have a card reader, 2 burners and a hard drive. Usually the HD is C:\ the burners are D and E, and the card reader comes up as 4 removable drives (multi reader) F,G,H,I but for bizarre reason this time the piece of crap has decided to make the reader C D E F tha burners G & H and the hard drive I. This seems to be causing other faults and I cant change the drive letters (I can in 98 ). What do I do. :rant: :cry:

2. When I try to install other software i get this message:-

There is no disc in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive \Device\Harddisc1\DR2.

What the hell is that all about. Sometimes it comes up when I'm going to playa game.:)


Can somebody tell me whats going on, Ihavent installed anything new or changed anything, just reloaded it, something I used to do with 98 every so often without problems, I'm too old for this ****.:D

Hi Ol' Fart,

To change drive letter assignments in xp you need to do the following.

Right-click My Computer, and then click Manage.
Under Computer Management, click Disk Management (you might have to expand some of the menus'). In the right panel, you should see all of your drives listed. CD-ROM drives are listed at the bottom of the panel.
Right-click the drive or device you want to change, and then click "Change Drive Letter and Paths".
Click Change, click Assign the following drive letter, click the drive letter you want to assign, and then click OK.

Hope this helps mate.

Although something tells me that you'll have trouble changing the assignment of the hard drive as it its probably the boot volume on your PC.

Let me know if you can't and i'll try my best to help you out.

I cant change the drive letters (I can in 98 ).


You can change the drive letters by doing the following

Settings
Control panel
Administrative tools
Computer management
Click on "disk management" near the bottom (all your drives should show up bottom right)
Right click on the drive that you want to change and select "change drive letter and path"

To Change drive letters go to :-

Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Computer Management - Storage - Disk Management-
Your different drives should be shown, then right click over a drive and select "change drive letter and paths"
:D

Ok, thanks guys, especially firestorm. I managed to change most of the drive letters around but it wont let me make the hard drive (I drive) the C drive.

I found some stuff that says the error message is a problem with quicktime ( which I didnt have installed) so I tried installing it and making the changes they suggested. Didnt fix any thing. Maybe I should take out the card reader and try starting again from scratch? :doubt: :)

AHA I just updated quicktime from the net and the other fault is gone :drama: .

Maybe I should just put up with the HD being the I drive and see how things go.:doubt:

Does anyone want to know what I did to quicktime to get rid of the prob?:)

There is some somesoftware called partition magic ver8 i think it should do the trick for you.

Regards

...Maybe I should just put up with the HD being the I drive and see how things go.:doubt:

I'll let you know how to change the boot volume letter, but be warned:

Do not use the procedure described to change a drive on a computer where the drive letter has not changed. If you do so, you may not be able to start your operating system. Follow the procedure described, only to recover from a drive letter change, not to change an existing computer drive to something else. [Quote; Microsoft]

Whilst using the registry editor in the following, make sure all of your entries are 100% exact.

- Before you start, it's probably best to make a full system backup of the computer.
- Log on as an Administrator.
- Cilck: start/run/ type in 'regedit' then hit enter.
- Go to the following registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices
(the easiest way to do this is use the 'find' feature i the Edit menu, and type in MountedDevices)
- Expand the MountedDevices key.
- Right click on the MountedDevices key and click on permissions, make sure that 'Full Control' is set to 'Allow' in the lower box.
- If you changed it to 'Allow', make sure to change this back when you are finished with these steps.
- Find the drive letter you want to change to in the right panel. Look for '\DosDevices\C:'.
- Right-click \DosDevices\C:, and then click Rename.
- Rename it to an unused drive letter: ie. "\DosDevices\Z:".

This frees up drive letter C.

Now,
- Find the drive letter you want changed. Look for '\DosDevices\I:'.
- Right-click '\DosDevices\I:', and then click Rename.
- Rename it to the new drive letter '\DosDevices\C:'.
- Click the value for \DosDevices\Z:, click Rename, and then name it back to '\DosDevices\I:'.
- Right click on the 'MountedDevices' key and change the permissions back to the previous setting for Administrators (this should probably be 'Read Only').
- Restart the computer and hope for the best. :P

Good luck mate. :D



This information is shared in good will. I, the sharer, accept no responsibility for any damage caused to software/hardware by this.

Just out of curiousity.. does the card reader plug into the IDE cable.. and if so, is there a primary IDE cable plugged into the card reader?

Thanx Firestorm i'll have a look at it. I speak fluent DOS :shock: and have done plenty of regediting so that looks prety straight forward to me. Ta :D



Just out of curiousity.. does the card reader plug into the IDE cable.. and if so, is there a primary IDE cable plugged into the card reader?

It plugs into the usb2 port for frone moune usb sockets. It has a usb socket on it too so you dont loose the front ones. It fits into the B drive 3 1/2" slot.:D

Much as I regret it ive been forced to put XP back on my on line computer.

Now I have 2 problems with the dam thing and I dunno what to do.

1 I have a card reader, 2 burners and a hard drive. Usually the HD is C:\ the burners are D and E, and the card reader comes up as 4 removable drives (multi reader) F,G,H,I but for bizarre reason this time the piece of crap has decided to make the reader C D E F tha burners G & H and the hard drive I. This seems to be causing other faults and I cant change the drive letters (I can in 98 ). What do I do. :rant: :cry:

2. When I try to install other software i get this message:-

There is no disc in the drive. Please insert a disk into drive \Device\Harddisc1\DR2.

What the hell is that all about. Sometimes it comes up when I'm going to playa game.:)


Can somebody tell me whats going on, Ihavent installed anything new or changed anything, just reloaded it, something I used to do with 98 every so often without problems, I'm too old for this ****.:D Suggest U format your HDD and start with a clean sheet. Windows XP runs OK if its set up properly from scratch. Usually does the trick. Also, go into BIOS setup and see if you can rename your drives.