CDROM Drives should always be Drive O:

I got tired of moving around my CD drives when I added flash drives
and other external stuff. I figured out that CD's should always be
Drive O: The reason is because like an O, cd's are ROUND !!!!

Now you know the whole story !!!

 

In message <6ntnt417t8tdhum05rk6i63o2q8gm2loiu@4ax.com>,
letterman@invalid.com writes:
>I got tired of moving around my CD drives when I added flash drives
>and other external stuff. I figured out that CD's should always be
>Drive O: The reason is because like an O, cd's are ROUND !!!!
>
>Now you know the whole story !!!
>
Mine tend to be R: (for reader) or W: (guess ...)
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letterman@invalid.com wrote:
| I got tired of moving around my CD drives when I added flash drives
| and other external stuff. I figured out that CD's should always be
| Drive O: The reason is because like an O, cd's are ROUND !!!!
|
| Now you know the whole story !!!

I changed my own to W long ago-- maybe in Bush's first term! And I'm not
sure O is doing any better or different! Here was my write-up for
that...

CD-R/W Drive Letter Change

Using Device Manager, I changed my CD-R/W letter from E: to W:...

"Control Panel, System, Device Manager tab, open CD-ROM branch, D-Clk
CD-ROM for Properties, Settings tab, enter 'W' for both start/end drive
letter, OK,
OK".

Then, I ran PC Mag's COA2...
http://www.pcmag.com/
.... to change system references. You must 1st insert a formatted CD (or
be told the addresses don't exist!) Then, enter "E:\" (or whatever) for
old address & "W:\" for new. The "Change Now" button will light up.

I was surprised to see, in the "Detail Report" screen, it changed INIs
on my Dartition. I didn't see a mention of it in the "Review Change
Records" screen-- maybe I missed a page; it's possible. Anyway, the
references were indeed now W:.

The only Shortcuts fixed were three on the START, Documents, recent
list. On C:, only WINDOWS\winhelp.ini had a reference, not System.ini
nor Win.ini. On D:, CPQS\aqr.ini and CPQS\ACC\AQR.INI were fixed. Eight
Registry entries seemed clearly to be importantly and well changed.
There were references, in the Registry, it would not change, because
they were binary. These were in MRU (Most Recently Used) lists, making
them of little consequence.


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letterman@invalid.com wrote:

> I got tired of moving around my CD drives when I added flash drives
> and other external stuff. I figured out that CD's should always be
> Drive O: The reason is because like an O, cd's are ROUND !!!!
>
> Now you know the whole story !!!

Me thinks you're getting it right, but for the wrong reason.
In ms arcane way for letting users access volumes; the second
Optical Disc Drive (both CDs and DVDs) has to be 'P' for me, but
the first one is 'O' for 'Optical'.

Now, why they aren't accessed by the volumes VolumeName ...?!?
(Differentiated by the volumes underlying serial-number for
volumes with nonexistent VolumeName or in case when several
identical VolumeNames are present simultaneously.)


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On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 20:54:35 -0400, "PCR" <pcrrcp@netzero.net> wrote:

>letterman@invalid.com wrote:
>| I got tired of moving around my CD drives when I added flash drives
>| and other external stuff. I figured out that CD's should always be
>| Drive O: The reason is because like an O, cd's are ROUND !!!!
>|
>| Now you know the whole story !!!
>
>I changed my own to W long ago-- maybe in Bush's first term! And I'm not
>sure O is doing any better or different! Here was my write-up for
>that...
>
>CD-R/W Drive Letter Change
>
>Using Device Manager, I changed my CD-R/W letter from E: to W:...
>
>"Control Panel, System, Device Manager tab, open CD-ROM branch, D-Clk
>CD-ROM for Properties, Settings tab, enter 'W' for both start/end drive
>letter, OK,
>OK".
>
>Then, I ran PC Mag's COA2...
>http://www.pcmag.com/
>... to change system references. You must 1st insert a formatted CD (or
>be told the addresses don't exist!) Then, enter "E:\" (or whatever) for
>old address & "W:\" for new. The "Change Now" button will light up.
>
>I was surprised to see, in the "Detail Report" screen, it changed INIs
>on my Dartition. I didn't see a mention of it in the "Review Change
>Records" screen-- maybe I missed a page; it's possible. Anyway, the
>references were indeed now W:.
>
>The only Shortcuts fixed were three on the START, Documents, recent
>list. On C:, only WINDOWS\winhelp.ini had a reference, not System.ini
>nor Win.ini. On D:, CPQS\aqr.ini and CPQS\ACC\AQR.INI were fixed. Eight
>Registry entries seemed clearly to be importantly and well changed.
>There were references, in the Registry, it would not change, because
>they were binary. These were in MRU (Most Recently Used) lists, making
>them of little consequence.

I could have used R: because it's only a reader, but O: made more
sense. Now that external burner I had connected was on P: because all
it did was P:iss me off !!!!

LM

 

letterman@invalid.com wrote:
| On Wed, 8 Apr 2009 20:54:35 -0400, "PCR" <pcrrcp@netzero.net> wrote:
|
|>letterman@invalid.com wrote:
|>| I got tired of moving around my CD drives when I added flash drives
|>| and other external stuff. I figured out that CD's should always be
|>| Drive O: The reason is because like an O, cd's are ROUND !!!!
|>|
|>| Now you know the whole story !!!
|>
|>I changed my own to W long ago-- maybe in Bush's first term! And I'm
|>not sure O is doing any better or different! Here was my write-up for
|>that...
|>
|>CD-R/W Drive Letter Change
|>
|>Using Device Manager, I changed my CD-R/W letter from E: to W:...
|>
|>"Control Panel, System, Device Manager tab, open CD-ROM branch, D-Clk
|>CD-ROM for Properties, Settings tab, enter 'W' for both start/end
|>drive letter, OK,
|>OK".
|>
|>Then, I ran PC Mag's COA2...
|>http://www.pcmag.com/
|>... to change system references. You must 1st insert a formatted CD
|>(or be told the addresses don't exist!) Then, enter "E:\" (or
|>whatever) for old address & "W:\" for new. The "Change Now" button
|>will light up.
|>
|>I was surprised to see, in the "Detail Report" screen, it changed INIs
|>on my Dartition. I didn't see a mention of it in the "Review Change
|>Records" screen-- maybe I missed a page; it's possible. Anyway, the
|>references were indeed now W:.
|>
|>The only Shortcuts fixed were three on the START, Documents, recent
|>list. On C:, only WINDOWS\winhelp.ini had a reference, not System.ini
|>nor Win.ini. On D:, CPQS\aqr.ini and CPQS\ACC\AQR.INI were fixed.
|>Eight Registry entries seemed clearly to be importantly and well
|>changed. There were references, in the Registry, it would not change,
|>because they were binary. These were in MRU (Most Recently Used)
|>lists, making them of little consequence.
|
| I could have used R: because it's only a reader, but O: made more
| sense. Now that external burner I had connected was on P: because all
| it did was P:iss me off !!!!

LOL. Did you check the Registry & .ini's to see whether anything needed
changing? To get .ini's...

(1) "START, Find, F/F"
(2) Named............... *.ini
(3) Containing text... E:\
(presuming it originally was E:\.)

Use RegEdit for the Registry, but ignore all MRU's (Most Recently
Used's).

| LM

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