Re: [PCWorks] Drive Letter Assignment Curiosity
- From: Hugh Vandervoort <hughv2@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 21:46:41 -0500
It's been a while but I know Zip drive letters have caused confusion
in the past.
This statement from Iomega adds a little more:
"CD-ROM Changing letter.
After installing the Zip drive, your CD-ROM will be mapped as the last
drive letter. For example, if your CD-ROM drive letter was D: after
the installation, your CD-ROM drive letter would become E:, this is a
natural occurrence, your CD-ROM will always be the last drive letter."
http://www.computerhope.com/help/zipdrive.htm
Win98SE does, indeed, support USB.
http://www.technical-assistance.co.uk/kb/win98se-usb-mass-storage-drivers.php
I have never heard of a reason for preferring where a device appears
in the drive letter hierarchy, but I know of people who obsess about
it.
I suspect you're right about changing the BIOS to defaults.
Are you having any problems caused by the change in letters?
Look in the BIOS for any entries related to USB, esepecially "Enable
Legacy Support".
There may be others.
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 5:07 PM, Tom <tjd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This will probably be a bit confusing, but here goes. I
> have
> a dual boot system, Windows 98 SE and Windows XP SP3. The
> hard drive is partitioned into "c" "d" "e." There are two
> optical drives and a serial port Iomega Zip drive.
>
> A few weeks ago I had to work on the CPU heat sink and fan
> and I must have jiggled the battery because I had to press
> F2
> during booting to set the BIOS defaults. Prior to that time
>
> both 98 and XP listed the drives in the same order.
> However,
> after the battery jiggling the listing was this way.
>
> When in "my computer" in Windows 98 SE the drives are
> listed:
> "c" hard drive.
> "d" hard drive.
> "e" hard drive.
> "f" optical drive.
> "g" optical drive.
> "h" serial port zip drive.
>
> However, in "my computer" in Windows XP the drives are
> listed:
> "c" hard drive.
> "d" hard drive.
> "e" hard drive.
> "f" serial port zip drive.
> "g" optical drive.
> "h" optical drive.
>
> Question one, why are the drive listings different in
> Windows
> 98 SE than the way they are listed in Windows XP?
>
> Now, my second curiosity.
>
> Before the battery jiggling, when plugging in a USB drive,
> while in Windows XP, (USB doesn't work in 98 SE) it came up
> as drive "f" and pushed the two optical drives and the zip
> drive up one letter.
>
> After the jiggling, the USB device now comes up as "I"
> adding
> it at the end of the list instead of between "e" and "f."
>
> Is it better, or more appropriate, to have a USB device
> appear at the end of the drive list, or, is it OK for it to
> be inserted in the middle of the list?
>
> If anyone follows this at all, is there an explanation? I'm
>
> guessing it has something to do with BIOS settings but I am
> not able to see the BIOS screens. I just want to get some
> information so that when someone comes to help me with the
> BIOS settings I'll kind of know what I'm talking about and
> know the best way to set the drive selection.
>
> Thanks, if you managed to read this far in this message
> (smile).
>
> Tom
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