26-06-2003 06:43									#31
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quote: Wouldn't one of your partitions be the d: then? And your cd be e:

I don't remember how it came to be, but it's not.

Perhaps the partition was created AFTER the CD was recognized

	26-06-2003 06:45									#32
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quote: Originally posted by Skanky Burns Unless you set your cd drive to only ever be d:, windows will move it up a letter should you add harddrives. Sava

But one drive in 2 partions (c: and d) would make the new CD drive e:? and any new partition on that HD would be f:, is that right? (I know the first bit is )

	26-06-2003 06:51									#33
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quote: quote: Originally posted by ME "DOS? What's DOS? I don't play DOS! woohooo! more disk space!"

BTW, you have to pronouce it, "dose"

	26-06-2003 06:53									#34
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quote: Originally posted by Sirotnikov quote: Wouldn't one of your partitions be the d: then? And your cd be e: I don't remember how it came to be, but it's not. Perhaps the partition was created AFTER the CD was recognized

That would make sense. You can lock drives to certain letters, and as a lot of software expects a CD-ROM to be D: then it would make sense to lock it there.

	26-06-2003 06:56									#35
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Though if you try to access partition D, and your CD-ROM is not assigned to that letter, then how come it starts keeping noices for 3 minutes? It shouldn't do poop.

	26-06-2003 07:08									#36
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quote: he's been ordered to bed

no one orders me to bed!

I'm 19 tommorow. Who is going to order me to bed?

	26-06-2003 07:10									#37
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Get to bed, Siro.

	26-06-2003 07:12									#38
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Can someone clear this up for me? I always thought the last drive created was appended to the 'letter list'. I've DEFINATELY had HDs 'after' my CD drive

	26-06-2003 07:13									#39
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quote: Originally posted by Sirotnikov quote: he's been ordered to bed no one orders me to bed! I'm 19 tommorow. Who is going to order me to bed?

Like, your girl/boyfirend? Significant Other? Get the picture?

	26-06-2003 07:24									#40
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I think windows assigns drive letters as it finds them. Primary master partition 0 starts at c:, then any other partitions (in order). It then moves on to primary slave, secondary master, secondary slave. If your cd is secondary master and you have a hd on secondary slave, the cd will come before your hd.

An exception to this is if you change the drive properties in windows to assign it a letter within certain ranges. You can set the cd to be only d:, or only between x: to z:.

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quote: Like, your girl/boyfirend? Significant Other? Get the picture?

*grumble*
well no one "orders" me to bed. My gf can ask me, and I'll happily jump in

My CD is secondary master and my HD is primary master.

I created the partitions after 2 win 2000 boots.

	26-06-2003 08:00									#42
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quote: Originally posted by Cruddy You can lock drives to certain letters, and as a lot of software expects a CD-ROM to be D: then it would make sense to lock it there.

I haven't seen any software that actually expects the CD-ROM drive to be at a particular drive letter. That would be very bad programming.

In the Windows NT line, you can assign any letters to any drives. I don't know if you always need a C:, though.

	26-06-2003 08:09									#43
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger I haven't seen any software that actually expects the CD-ROM drive to be at a particular drive letter. That would be very bad programming.

In the 'bad ole days' you were taking your life in your hands by not installing software to it's default directory (a habit that sticks with me).

But these days any software that takes any configuation for granted is asking for troubler

	26-06-2003 08:13									#44
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I had a cd from a games magazine that had a batch file.
"d:\games\somegame..."

Yes, very bad programming.

	26-06-2003 08:17									#45
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quote: Originally posted by Skanky Burns I had a cd from a games magazine that had a batch file. "d:\games\somegame..." Yes, very bad programming.

Biggest culprits - although there are games that get stroppy when the CD is in any drive but D:.

How's it going Siro? You cracked it yet? What's going on, last time you weren't sure if the boot disk was making CD-ROM available. Is it?

	26-06-2003 08:21									#46
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Oh Siro, did you try removing the cd drive completely from the windows hardware drivers list and then let windows install its own new drivers?

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quote: Originally posted by reds4ever In the 'bad ole days' you were taking your life in your hands by not installing software to it's default directory (a habit that sticks with me).

Not for Windows. In the DOS days, I never had any need to reinstall the OS (?). Even if I had such a need, I wouldn't need to wipe the system and start from scratch.

So all the Windows machine I install will have Windows sitting in its own partition. So I can just format that drive if necessary. Now I realise that I still need to reinstall some other software, but not all.

Of course, I'd use Ghost for companies.

	26-06-2003 21:35									#48
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quote: Oh Siro, did you try removing the cd drive completely from the windows hardware drivers list and then let windows install its own new drivers?

I fear that only the private toshiba drivers will be replaced, and not the windows files, which I suspect may be corrupted.

The only way to make a bootable windows 2000 diskette, is to use a utility found on the CD


I think it may very well be the case that the CD-ROM is gone. I'll get my dad to take it to work and see if it works there.


Thanks for all the help, you guys

	26-06-2003 21:37									#49
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no problem!

	26-06-2003 21:44									#50
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quote: Originally posted by Urban Ranger Not for Windows. In the DOS days, I never had any need to reinstall the OS (?). Even if I had such a need, I wouldn't need to wipe the system and start from scratch. So all the Windows machine I install will have Windows sitting in its own partition. So I can just format that drive if necessary. Now I realise that I still need to reinstall some other software, but not all.

Yep, I was talking DOS, you had the option to change the default directory, run the app, and it would promptly look for its files in the default