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Drive Letter for Diskette station
While putting an external USB stick in my laptop, this stick assigned its "key" partition to the letter "A" of my OS (the stick is devided in 2 partitions the key partition assigns itself to A or B depending on which available at the moment and the other partition assigns itself to the first letter available after the C only this one can be changed from within the OS). Because the letter "A" was assigned from this moment on; when I put my diskette drive in later on it assigned itself to the next available letter: "B". This happened even if the USB stick wasn't put in. From this moment on no boot diskette or other previous installed things on diskettes seemed to work. I managed to reassign the previous references to A now to B (with the program PM). Now I would like to revert this so that my diskette station is again assigned to the letter A. This seems impossible because the diskette station is only visible under "My Computer" where the drive letters can't be changed. Where can I change this drive letter of the diskette station ??
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Drive Letter for Diskette station
"Guydpb" wrote in message ... While putting an external USB stick in my laptop, this stick assigned its "key" partition to the letter "A" of my OS (the stick is devided in 2 partitions the key partition assigns itself to A or B depending on which available at the moment and the other partition assigns itself to the first letter available after the C only this one can be changed from within the OS). Because the letter "A" was assigned from this moment on; when I put my diskette drive in later on it assigned itself to the next available letter: "B". This happened even if the USB stick wasn't put in. From this moment on no boot diskette or other previous installed things on diskettes seemed to work. I managed to reassign the previous references to A now to B (with the program PM). Now I would like to revert this so that my diskette station is again assigned to the letter A. This seems impossible because the diskette station is only visible under "My Computer" where the drive letters can't be changed. Where can I change this drive letter of the diskette station ?? -- Guydpb - Run regedit.exe - Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices - Locate the entry "\DosDevices\A:" - Press F2, then rename it to "\DosDevices\U:" (for example) - Locate the entry "\DosDevices\B:" - Press F2, then rename it to "\DosDevices\A:" - Reboot the PC |
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Wonderfull thanks, but now I see that there are under SYSTEM to subdivisions: SYSTEM\Mounted Device1 and SYSTEM\Mounted Devices. The entries for DosDevices\A and DosDevices\B appearing once in each subdivision of SYSTEM and the same values (along with the other DosDevices...) So do I have to do the same for DosDevices1 and DosDevices ? Thanks |
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