Yet another techie Q- Atributing drive letters

Factual Questions
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Tech help is worthless, my tech brother is confused, so I turn to you. How do you, or can you, re-attribute drive letters.

To be specific: I’m using a Pent III, 450, 128 meg RAM running win 98- I have both a CD-ROM and CD-R-W units.

The problem? I’ve rebuilt my system a few times, i.e., reloading win 98. During the process, the O.S. has now decided that my main drive, CD-ROM, slot 1, is ‘D’ and my second slot, CD-R-W, is now drive ‘Q’. Huh? what the Hell is in between? How about ‘E’, Microsoft?

To make matters worse, I’m trying to play a game on my comp which had been loaded in the HD. To play the game, it wants the CD in the ‘Q’ drive, not the ‘D’ drive.

I don’t want to add extra wear on my burner, I want the program to find the CD in the ‘D’ drive, not the ‘Q’… But it won’t let me. It’s demanding I put it in the ‘Q’ drive.

I hate it when my machine tells me what to do.
Anyrate, you guys are the best at this kinda thing and I’m looking for some advice. Any?

Thanks,
C–

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Try going into the system control panel. Click on the device manager tab. This should list all the hardwarte you have, double click on CDROM to show your cd drives. Click on the one with Q assigned to it and then click the properties button. In the properties button click the settings tab. Set both the sart and end drive letters to E. reboot the computer. If that doesnt work you might have to do it in autoexec.bat.

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The game problem is easy - you installed the game with the CD in the ‘Q’ drive, so that is where it is looking for it. Solution? Uninstall & reinstall using the D: CR-Rom. Alternative - search through the registry for entries left by this game and change Q: references to D:

As to why drive Q: and not E:? There is a setting somewhere that lets you select the drive letter. I think it is in MSCONFIG. But I am on NT right now and can’t check it for you.

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Those sons 'o bitches! Damn I hate this shit.

There’s no uninstall anywhere listed within the program on the HD. Furthermore, there is no un-install listed within the add-remove program.

Further’f’in’more, I can’t seem to find any reference to it in the registry.

God these people make me sick! Up yours for trying to make it easy! Infiltrate my whole friggin system why don’t you!!!

BTW- Calm now. It’s Westwood’s Monopoly.

Thanks for the suggestions so far, still no luck, obviously.

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Find where the game is on the HD, see if there is a file called ‘uninstall’, if so, click it. IF not, you can try to delete the directory instead.

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Tried that too Handy. Actually, I found it on the disk itself. I punched it up, it asked me about ten times whether or not I really wanted to do this, I said yes ten times, and it spat me back a message saying it was unsuccesfull.

Great… It didn’t even give me the options of what I wanted erased. It basically gave me a window saying “This is it… Are you realllllly sure??? O.K., Once more, are you realllllllyyyy Suuuuureeeeeeeee?”, and gave me a window I couldn’t click into to highlight what I wanted erased.

Assholes… They must have attended the AOL class of computer programming.

I’m taking a break now before I toss this damn thing out the window. I’ll check back later.
Thanks for the suggestions so far, I do appreciate it.