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- DOCUMENT:Q100008 01-SEP-1993 [W_NT]
- TITLE :INF: Assigning a Drive Letter to a CD-ROM Drive
- PRODUCT :Windows NT
- PROD/VER:3.10
- OPER/SYS:WINDOWS
- KEYWORDS:
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- The information in this article applies to:
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- - Microsoft Windows NT operating system version 3.1
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- When a CD-ROM drive is initialized under Windows NT, it uses the first
- available drive letter. There is no straightforward method of choosing
- a drive letter. However, you can set up your other drives and
- partitions in Disk Administrator such that the drive letter you want
- to use for your CD-ROM is unused. For example, if you have two
- partitions and you want your CD-ROM to be drive D, use Disk
- Administrator to set the partition drive letters to C and E. When the
- CD-ROM initializes, it will use D because it is the first available
- drive letter.
-
- NOTE: This workaround does not let you choose a drive letter that is
- used for a network drive. The next available drive letter used by a
- local physical drive will be used by the CD-ROM. There is no
- workaround.
-
- NOTE: You can also use the SUBST command to assign a different drive
- letter to the CD-ROM drive.
-
- Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Windows NT version
- 3.1. We are researching this problem and will post new information
- here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.
-
- Additional reference words: 3.10 winnt sticky static
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