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Retaining of drive letters.
I have recently installed a USB disk and want to refer to it as E: which is
currently used by my CD drive. I have gone into disk manager and changed the drive letters so that my CD is now on F: leaving E: free and changed the new disc to E: All is now ok, my computer sees it as E: However, as soon as I reboot the PC, the drives revert back to their original state i.e. CD= E: USB = F: I can change these around fine and all is OK once again until reboot. How can I make these changes permenant and not have to change them each time I boot the PC. Regards Andy |
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Retaining of drive letters.
On 25/08/2006 Andy wrote:
I have recently installed a USB disk and want to refer to it as E: which is currently used by my CD drive. I have gone into disk manager and changed the drive letters so that my CD is now on F: leaving E: free and changed the new disc to E: All is now ok, my computer sees it as E: However, as soon as I reboot the PC, the drives revert back to their original state i.e. CD= E: USB = F: I can change these around fine and all is OK once again until reboot. How can I make these changes permenant and not have to change them each time I boot the PC. Regards Andy Depending on what type of XP user account you are using, if the account is not an "administrator" type account, the changes do not seem to be saved permanently. I would try assigning the drive letter with the Administrator account. -- --- Y. |
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Retaining of drive letters.
I do use an administrator account. I even tried starting in safe mode and
logging in as administrator but the changes were still not saved. For some reason my CD-RW drive insists on being E: Depending on what type of XP user account you are using, if the account is not an "administrator" type account, the changes do not seem to be saved permanently. I would try assigning the drive letter with the Administrator account. -- --- Y. |
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Retaining of drive letters.
Andy wrote:
I have recently installed a USB disk and want to refer to it as E: which is currently used by my CD drive. I have gone into disk manager and changed the drive letters so that my CD is now on F: leaving E: free and changed the new disc to E: All is now ok, my computer sees it as E: However, as soon as I reboot the PC, the drives revert back to their original state i.e. CD= E: USB = F: I can change these around fine and all is OK once again until reboot. How can I make these changes permenant and not have to change them each time I boot the PC. I've seen a report that ZoneAlarm caused such a problem. |
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Retaining of drive letters.
I do have Zonealram running so I will see what heppens if I close that and then change the drive. Thnaks Andy I've seen a report that ZoneAlarm caused such a problem. |
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Retaining of drive letters - ZoneAlarm.
Andy wrote:
I do have Zonealram running so I will see what heppens if I close that and then change the drive. Thnaks Andy I've seen a report that ZoneAlarm caused such a problem. I've used ZoneAlarm for several years and always used "update" to upgrade to the latest version. With the most recent release zlsSetup_65_731_000, it reset my CD and DVD drive letters on the secondary IDE bus. The drive on the primary IDE bus was not affected. Changing the drive letters back using the Windows Disk Management tool worked until the next reboot, but then they were changed again. I typically keep letter my optical drives so they have letters at the end of the alphabet. After the reboot, the drives would move to the next available drive letters after the hard drives. I've done several tests and verified that ZoneAlarm is responsible for the behaviour. I'm anxious for a solution if anyone knows of one. |
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Retaining of drive letters - ZoneAlarm.
Chuck wrote:
I've used ZoneAlarm for several years and always used "update" to upgrade to the latest version. With the most recent release zlsSetup_65_731_000, it reset my CD and DVD drive letters on the secondary IDE bus. The drive on the primary IDE bus was not affected. Changing the drive letters back using the Windows Disk Management tool worked until the next reboot, but then they were changed again. I typically keep letter my optical drives so they have letters at the end of the alphabet. After the reboot, the drives would move to the next available drive letters after the hard drives. I've done several tests and verified that ZoneAlarm is responsible for the behaviour. I'm anxious for a solution if anyone knows of one. Thanks for the information. I have a ugly workaround until they fix it: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/remount.zip It's a commandline tool that quickly changes drive letters. Sample: remount e: x: Greetings from Germany Uwe |
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Retaining of drive letters - ZoneAlarm.
Chuck wrote: Andy wrote: I do have Zonealram running so I will see what heppens if I close that and then change the drive. Thnaks Andy I've seen a report that ZoneAlarm caused such a problem. I've used ZoneAlarm for several years and always used "update" to upgrade to the latest version. With the most recent release zlsSetup_65_731_000, it reset my CD and DVD drive letters on the secondary IDE bus. The drive on the primary IDE bus was not affected. Changing the drive letters back using the Windows Disk Management tool worked until the next reboot, but then they were changed again. I typically keep letter my optical drives so they have letters at the end of the alphabet. After the reboot, the drives would move to the next available drive letters after the hard drives. I've done several tests and verified that ZoneAlarm is responsible for the behaviour. I'm anxious for a solution if anyone knows of one. Chuck, I also have experienced this problem on my WinXP Home system. My CD-Rom was set as "Q" and my Zip drive was set as "G" - now, they've changed back to "G" for the CD-Rom and "H" for the Zip drive. They worked fine for quite a while (over two to three years that way). I don't know when the "change" occurred, however, but I guess it could be due to ZA. I was using ZA 6.5.722.000 and decided to go up to 731 - the problem continues with both of these versions. I plan to do some testing myself with older versions of ZA but would like to know what you've done so far. You mentioned that you performed some tests and it would help if only to not reinvent the wheel, so to speak. One more thing, I posted info from your post to the "General" group on the ZA forums - hoping from some help over there. Thanks, Fred |
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Retaining of drive letters - ZoneAlarm.
Fred S ***** wrote: Chuck wrote: Andy wrote: I do have Zonealram running so I will see what heppens if I close that and then change the drive. Thnaks Andy I've seen a report that ZoneAlarm caused such a problem. I've used ZoneAlarm for several years and always used "update" to upgrade to the latest version. With the most recent release zlsSetup_65_731_000, it reset my CD and DVD drive letters on the secondary IDE bus. The drive on the primary IDE bus was not affected. Changing the drive letters back using the Windows Disk Management tool worked until the next reboot, but then they were changed again. I typically keep letter my optical drives so they have letters at the end of the alphabet. After the reboot, the drives would move to the next available drive letters after the hard drives. I've done several tests and verified that ZoneAlarm is responsible for the behaviour. I'm anxious for a solution if anyone knows of one. Chuck, I also have experienced this problem on my WinXP Home system. My CD-Rom was set as "Q" and my Zip drive was set as "G" - now, they've changed back to "G" for the CD-Rom and "H" for the Zip drive. They worked fine for quite a while (over two to three years that way). I don't know when the "change" occurred, however, but I guess it could be due to ZA. I was using ZA 6.5.722.000 and decided to go up to 731 - the problem continues with both of these versions. I plan to do some testing myself with older versions of ZA but would like to know what you've done so far. You mentioned that you performed some tests and it would help if only to not reinvent the wheel, so to speak. One more thing, I posted info from your post to the "General" group on the ZA forums - hoping from some help over there. Thanks, Fred This is an update to this post and topic: I was able to remove Zone Alarm's latest version and reinstalled an older version (ver 6.1.744.001). As a result, the drive letters now remain as set using Disk Management. FredS |
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Retaining of drive letters - ZoneAlarm.
Uwe Sieber wrote:
Chuck wrote: I've used ZoneAlarm for several years and always used "update" to upgrade to the latest version. With the most recent release zlsSetup_65_731_000, it reset my CD and DVD drive letters on the secondary IDE bus. The drive on the primary IDE bus was not affected. Changing the drive letters back using the Windows Disk Management tool worked until the next reboot, but then they were changed again. I typically keep letter my optical drives so they have letters at the end of the alphabet. After the reboot, the drives would move to the next available drive letters after the hard drives. I've done several tests and verified that ZoneAlarm is responsible for the behaviour. I'm anxious for a solution if anyone knows of one. Thanks for the information. I have a ugly workaround until they fix it: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/remount.zip It's a commandline tool that quickly changes drive letters. Sample: remount e: x: Greetings from Germany Uwe I agree it is ugly but maybe the only thing to do is just script this file to set things back up with each login. Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately I'm getting the famous 404 Not Found error when I go to your link. I'll try searching for the utility. My daughter is a 5th year German language student who is trying for an exchange student program in Germany. I return the greetings. |
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Retaining of drive letters - ZoneAlarm.
I usually do pretty extensive testing before I post to a message group
so I was pretty confident that the problem was with ZA. The strange thing is that when I uninstalled the version of ZA that caused the drive renumbering and re-installed the version that I previously had active, the drive numbering problem was still there! Since I have a sys admin background, I make many backups prior to trying new versions of software so I restored my backup and the problem went away. I don't know if ZoneLabs will ever fix the problem or even acknowledge that it is a problem. Until then, I may have to start looking for alternatives. (Or use Uwe's workaround) Fred S ***** wrote: Fred S ***** wrote: Chuck wrote: Andy wrote: I do have Zonealram running so I will see what heppens if I close that and then change the drive. Thnaks Andy I've seen a report that ZoneAlarm caused such a problem. I've used ZoneAlarm for several years and always used "update" to upgrade to the latest version. With the most recent release zlsSetup_65_731_000, it reset my CD and DVD drive letters on the secondary IDE bus. The drive on the primary IDE bus was not affected. Changing the drive letters back using the Windows Disk Management tool worked until the next reboot, but then they were changed again. I typically keep letter my optical drives so they have letters at the end of the alphabet. After the reboot, the drives would move to the next available drive letters after the hard drives. I've done several tests and verified that ZoneAlarm is responsible for the behaviour. I'm anxious for a solution if anyone knows of one. Chuck, I also have experienced this problem on my WinXP Home system. My CD-Rom was set as "Q" and my Zip drive was set as "G" - now, they've changed back to "G" for the CD-Rom and "H" for the Zip drive. They worked fine for quite a while (over two to three years that way). I don't know when the "change" occurred, however, but I guess it could be due to ZA. I was using ZA 6.5.722.000 and decided to go up to 731 - the problem continues with both of these versions. I plan to do some testing myself with older versions of ZA but would like to know what you've done so far. You mentioned that you performed some tests and it would help if only to not reinvent the wheel, so to speak. One more thing, I posted info from your post to the "General" group on the ZA forums - hoping from some help over there. Thanks, Fred This is an update to this post and topic: I was able to remove Zone Alarm's latest version and reinstalled an older version (ver 6.1.744.001). As a result, the drive letters now remain as set using Disk Management. FredS |
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Retaining of drive letters - ZoneAlarm.
Chuck,
I also have numerous image files of my system and I restored my system after having problems uninstalling ZA v6.5.722. I used a manual uninstall procedure that I got from the ZA forum (where I posted this problem). Nice folks there were aware of the dropped drive letters and agreed with me to try an older version. I did that as noted in my post (see below) and then RESET the drive letters using Disk Management again - this time they held on, that is, they no longer change at boot time and I'm back to where I want to be. Once again the version that works is 6.1.744 - I suggest you do the same if you want your drive letters back the way they were. Fred Chuck wrote: I usually do pretty extensive testing before I post to a message group so I was pretty confident that the problem was with ZA. The strange thing is that when I uninstalled the version of ZA that caused the drive renumbering and re-installed the version that I previously had active, the drive numbering problem was still there! Since I have a sys admin background, I make many backups prior to trying new versions of software so I restored my backup and the problem went away. I don't know if ZoneLabs will ever fix the problem or even acknowledge that it is a problem. Until then, I may have to start looking for alternatives. (Or use Uwe's workaround) Fred S ***** wrote: Fred S ***** wrote: Chuck wrote: Andy wrote: I do have Zonealram running so I will see what heppens if I close that and then change the drive. Thnaks Andy I've seen a report that ZoneAlarm caused such a problem. I've used ZoneAlarm for several years and always used "update" to upgrade to the latest version. With the most recent release zlsSetup_65_731_000, it reset my CD and DVD drive letters on the secondary IDE bus. The drive on the primary IDE bus was not affected. Changing the drive letters back using the Windows Disk Management tool worked until the next reboot, but then they were changed again. I typically keep letter my optical drives so they have letters at the end of the alphabet. After the reboot, the drives would move to the next available drive letters after the hard drives. I've done several tests and verified that ZoneAlarm is responsible for the behaviour. I'm anxious for a solution if anyone knows of one. Chuck, I also have experienced this problem on my WinXP Home system. My CD-Rom was set as "Q" and my Zip drive was set as "G" - now, they've changed back to "G" for the CD-Rom and "H" for the Zip drive. They worked fine for quite a while (over two to three years that way). I don't know when the "change" occurred, however, but I guess it could be due to ZA. I was using ZA 6.5.722.000 and decided to go up to 731 - the problem continues with both of these versions. I plan to do some testing myself with older versions of ZA but would like to know what you've done so far. You mentioned that you performed some tests and it would help if only to not reinvent the wheel, so to speak. One more thing, I posted info from your post to the "General" group on the ZA forums - hoping from some help over there. Thanks, Fred This is an update to this post and topic: I was able to remove Zone Alarm's latest version and reinstalled an older version (ver 6.1.744.001). As a result, the drive letters now remain as set using Disk Management. FredS |
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Retaining of drive letters - ZoneAlarm.
Chuck wrote: I've done several tests and verified that ZoneAlarm is responsible for the behaviour. I'm anxious for a solution if anyone knows of one. Thanks for the information. I have a ugly workaround until they fix it: http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/remount.zip I agree it is ugly but maybe the only thing to do is just script this file to set things back up with each login. That's the plan :-) Unfortunately I'm getting the famous 404 Not Found error when I go to your link. I'll try searching for the utility. My site has been down yesterday. Now it's online again. My daughter is a 5th year German language student who is trying for an exchange student program in Germany. I return the greetings. :-) Uwe |
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