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April 6th 07, 06:45 AM
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Swapping Drive Letter Designations - Cable Select
In all of my machines, I have the CD-R/DVD in the top bay, and the CD-
R/DVD-R in the bottom bay, and Windows Explorer reports these drives as D and E, or E and F, etc. In other words, the top bay (the CD burner, if you will) is one letter, and the lower bay (DVD burner, if you will) is the following letter in the alphabet. Just an idiosyncrasy of mine. I just installed a Sony CD-R/DVD in the top bay, and a Lite-On CD-R/ DVD-R in the lower bay of an E510 running WMCE. These drives are connected to the IDE motherboard connector. I used the original (Dell) IDE cable select cable, and the drives are both jumpered cable select. The Lite-On is on the first cable connector, and the Sony is on the second, or last, cable connector. I had to do it this way due to the bay locations and the length of the IDE cable. Windows Explorer reports: the (bottom drive) Lite-On as DVD-RW Drive (D  the Sony (top drive) as DVD/CD-RW Drive (E I was hoping to see the drive letters just the opposite, but I suppose this is a function of the location of the drives on a cable select setup. Yes? My burning applications report the drives the same as Windows Explorer. At any rate, I'd like to swap the drive letter designations on these drives, as reported in Windows Explorer, but I don't know if this will cause problems with applications, especially CD and DVD burning programs. Any comments? Thanks 
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April 6th 07, 12:06 PM
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Swapping Drive Letter Designations - Cable Select
"Boris" wrote in message ps.com... In all of my machines, I have the CD-R/DVD in the top bay, and the CD- R/DVD-R in the bottom bay, and Windows Explorer reports these drives as D and E, or E and F, etc. In other words, the top bay (the CD burner, if you will) is one letter, and the lower bay (DVD burner, if you will) is the following letter in the alphabet. Just an idiosyncrasy of mine. I just installed a Sony CD-R/DVD in the top bay, and a Lite-On CD-R/ DVD-R in the lower bay of an E510 running WMCE. These drives are connected to the IDE motherboard connector. I used the original (Dell) IDE cable select cable, and the drives are both jumpered cable select. The Lite-On is on the first cable connector, and the Sony is on the second, or last, cable connector. I had to do it this way due to the bay locations and the length of the IDE cable. Windows Explorer reports: the (bottom drive) Lite-On as DVD-RW Drive (D the Sony (top drive) as DVD/CD-RW Drive (E I was hoping to see the drive letters just the opposite, but I suppose this is a function of the location of the drives on a cable select setup. Yes? My burning applications report the drives the same as Windows Explorer. At any rate, I'd like to swap the drive letter designations on these drives, as reported in Windows Explorer, but I don't know if this will cause problems with applications, especially CD and DVD burning programs. Any comments? Thanks You can just swap them in disk management. Won't matter.
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April 6th 07, 03:32 PM
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Swapping Drive Letter Designations - Cable Select
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007 07:06:17 -0400, "Tom Scales"
wrote: "Boris" wrote in message ups.com... In all of my machines, I have the CD-R/DVD in the top bay, and the CD- R/DVD-R in the bottom bay, and Windows Explorer reports these drives as D and E, or E and F, etc. In other words, the top bay (the CD burner, if you will) is one letter, and the lower bay (DVD burner, if you will) is the following letter in the alphabet. Just an idiosyncrasy of mine. I just installed a Sony CD-R/DVD in the top bay, and a Lite-On CD-R/ DVD-R in the lower bay of an E510 running WMCE. These drives are connected to the IDE motherboard connector. I used the original (Dell) IDE cable select cable, and the drives are both jumpered cable select. The Lite-On is on the first cable connector, and the Sony is on the second, or last, cable connector. I had to do it this way due to the bay locations and the length of the IDE cable. Windows Explorer reports: the (bottom drive) Lite-On as DVD-RW Drive (D the Sony (top drive) as DVD/CD-RW Drive (E I was hoping to see the drive letters just the opposite, but I suppose this is a function of the location of the drives on a cable select setup. Yes? My burning applications report the drives the same as Windows Explorer. At any rate, I'd like to swap the drive letter designations on these drives, as reported in Windows Explorer, but I don't know if this will cause problems with applications, especially CD and DVD burning programs. Any comments? Thanks You can just swap them in disk management. Won't matter. I concur with Tom. No big deal.
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April 6th 07, 04:18 PM
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Swapping Drive Letter Designations - Cable Select
On Apr 6, 4:06 am, "Tom Scales" wrote:
"Boris" wrote in message ps.com... In all of my machines, I have the CD-R/DVD in the top bay, and the CD- R/DVD-R in the bottom bay, and Windows Explorer reports these drives as D and E, or E and F, etc. In other words, the top bay (the CD burner, if you will) is one letter, and the lower bay (DVD burner, if you will) is the following letter in the alphabet. Just an idiosyncrasy of mine. I just installed a Sony CD-R/DVD in the top bay, and a Lite-On CD-R/ DVD-R in the lower bay of an E510 running WMCE. These drives are connected to the IDE motherboard connector. I used the original (Dell) IDE cable select cable, and the drives are both jumpered cable select. The Lite-On is on the first cable connector, and the Sony is on the second, or last, cable connector. I had to do it this way due to the bay locations and the length of the IDE cable. Windows Explorer reports: the (bottom drive) Lite-On as DVD-RW Drive (D the Sony (top drive) as DVD/CD-RW Drive (E I was hoping to see the drive letters just the opposite, but I suppose this is a function of the location of the drives on a cable select setup. Yes? My burning applications report the drives the same as Windows Explorer. At any rate, I'd like to swap the drive letter designations on these drives, as reported in Windows Explorer, but I don't know if this will cause problems with applications, especially CD and DVD burning programs. Any comments? Thanks You can just swap them in disk management. Won't matter. Many thanks, and I'll do just that. One more question...if at some point I set the BIOS to boot from CD, which of the two optical drives will the BIOS look to? The first one on the cable select cable, or the first drive letter that represents an optical drive? Thanks again
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April 6th 07, 04:39 PM
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Swapping Drive Letter Designations - Cable Select
"Boris" wrote in message ps.com... On Apr 6, 4:06 am, "Tom Scales" wrote: "Boris" wrote in message ps.com... In all of my machines, I have the CD-R/DVD in the top bay, and the CD- R/DVD-R in the bottom bay, and Windows Explorer reports these drives as D and E, or E and F, etc. In other words, the top bay (the CD burner, if you will) is one letter, and the lower bay (DVD burner, if you will) is the following letter in the alphabet. Just an idiosyncrasy of mine. I just installed a Sony CD-R/DVD in the top bay, and a Lite-On CD-R/ DVD-R in the lower bay of an E510 running WMCE. These drives are connected to the IDE motherboard connector. I used the original (Dell) IDE cable select cable, and the drives are both jumpered cable select. The Lite-On is on the first cable connector, and the Sony is on the second, or last, cable connector. I had to do it this way due to the bay locations and the length of the IDE cable. Windows Explorer reports: the (bottom drive) Lite-On as DVD-RW Drive (D the Sony (top drive) as DVD/CD-RW Drive (E I was hoping to see the drive letters just the opposite, but I suppose this is a function of the location of the drives on a cable select setup. Yes? My burning applications report the drives the same as Windows Explorer. At any rate, I'd like to swap the drive letter designations on these drives, as reported in Windows Explorer, but I don't know if this will cause problems with applications, especially CD and DVD burning programs. Any comments? Thanks You can just swap them in disk management. Won't matter. Many thanks, and I'll do just that. One more question...if at some point I set the BIOS to boot from CD, which of the two optical drives will the BIOS look to? The first one on the cable select cable, or the first drive letter that represents an optical drive? Thanks again It will likely boot from the one that is on the end of the cable.
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