aarond Posted April 5, 2006 CID Share Posted April 5, 2006 When attempting to make a copy of my administrative password onto a CD I am not given the choice to where my CD drive is located (D-drive). The choices to select from are other drives that I do not use. When I open "my computer" it shows the CD drive as drive d. When I place a CD into my computer drive it shows up as drive d in "my computer". Other times when I want to use drive d, my CD drive I have no problem selecting it as it shows up in a drop down box as a choice! In other words it works sometimes and othertimes I do not have the option to use drive d at all. Other options are given such as drive F, G etc. which I do not use. I recently had to reinstall windows XP due to some complications and since then this problem has occurred but does not always happen the same way. Prior to re installation of XP my drives for CD & DVD were drives G & H respectively and after reinstall they changed to D & E. I went into disk mngt. and have drive D as my CD drive and drive E as my DVD drive and most of the time this problem does not occur. What can I do to correct this mess and be given the choices when performing various functions to use drive D & E? Thanks in advance for any assistance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheHalf Posted April 5, 2006 CID Share Posted April 5, 2006 My thinking is that you have a FAT partition on your HDD and when you reinstalled XP, Windows bumped the drive letters. Not sure until you let us know for sure. TheHalf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aarond Posted April 5, 2006 Author CID Share Posted April 5, 2006 How do I find out for sure that the problem is with the FATS 32 and if that is the problem how do I correct it? It usually comes up with the ability to select drive E or D but sometimes as I explained it does not even show drive E or D in drop down box to direct a download to CD or DVD drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
junkieXL Posted April 7, 2006 CID Share Posted April 7, 2006 XP seems to get confused if theres more than one cd-rom drive...i've got 4 & control them with cd DriveTool, it is freeware: http://www.ingmar.dk peace---JxL :cool: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted April 7, 2006 CID Share Posted April 7, 2006 Welcome to the forum aarond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cholla Posted April 7, 2006 CID Share Posted April 7, 2006 aarond ;If you have a Windows 98 start-up disk reboot & start up with it.the minimum will do for using fdisk.Type fdisk at the prompt & select 4 to look at your drive partitions.This will show if any are FAT32.Mine are FAT 32 because I have ME. I'm not sure what to do if you find FAT32 partitions in your XP but this should show if they are there. My PC is partitioned C:active primary:D:&E: logical DOS drives & F: cdrom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tommie gorman Posted April 7, 2006 CID Share Posted April 7, 2006 aarond you might try this: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/tools/mbsa2/default.mspx Download english version. It helped me straighten my FAT files out. And it lets you check on security issues also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just- Posted April 7, 2006 CID Share Posted April 7, 2006 aarond this might be a bit of an over kill for your solution but you can use partition magic to find out that information also http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/products/system_performance/pm80/index.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jared Posted April 7, 2006 CID Share Posted April 7, 2006 I too also suggest Partition Magic. Welcome to the fourms!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aarond Posted April 8, 2006 Author CID Share Posted April 8, 2006 Hey, thanks so much for the warm welcome & the suggestions. I'll give them a try and see if it solves my problem. Appreciate it all! Aarond Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted April 8, 2006 CID Share Posted April 8, 2006 I too also suggest Partition Magic. Welcome to the fourms!!! I too would've suggested Partition Magic, maybe a few years ago before being bought by symantec. I now use Partition Manager. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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