Drive Letter Problem

[GMartin]

Hello,

I have a DVD-ROM(D set up as my secondary master, and a CD-RW(E as the secondary slave.
The problem is that when I go into My Computer, Explorer or any Save As dialogue box I cannot see the CD-RW, yet I can select it just fine from applications like Nero for example.
Also I can create a shortcut to it on my desktop simply typing 'E:' through the 'Create New Shortcut' command, and can access it just fine like that, so while it's not a huge problem, it is still frustrating the it is not recognized elsewhere.
For both drives I have the appropriate drive letter selected in the start/end boxes you find through the Control Panel Hardware Properties.
I am running an Athlon 700 with Win98SE, and both drives check out in the bios just fine.

Any Suggestions?
Thanks.
-GMartin

 

[conceptumator]

Try this. Go into My Computer and Control Panel, then find an icon for TweakUI. Hopefully the program has been installed (it does not installed by default, but you can find it on the Win98 in Power Tools). Open TweakUI and look for the "My Computer" tab. This tab allows you to set which drive letters are displayed on your system and which ones can be hidden. Make sure the letter you are looking for isn't masked here. Also, you might check for a lastdrive= statement in your Config.sys or autoexec.bat files and make sure it is far enough down the alphabet (i.e. lastdrive=z). Hope this helps.

 

[Guest_imported]

You made the statement "For both drives I have the appropriate drive letter selected in the start/end boxes you find through the Control Panel Hardware Properties." This is where your problem is. If you made your D: the last drive letter in one screen, it will be the last drive letter recognized in the "normal" way. Change your last drive to Z on both screens. I'd be real suprised if that does'nt fix it.