Assigned new drive letter to DVD drive. Reverts to old letter on reboot.

[Rob]

My DVD RW drive loads by default as E:, the lowest available letter. I
want to use E: for something else, so I assigned it the letter Z:
using Administrative Tools. But on reboot it reverts to E:.

A virtual drive created by the InstantWrite software has the same
problem, i.e. I cannot permanently reassign the drive letter, but
another DVD drive which was earlier assigned to Y: is still Y:.

I can successfully reassign the drive letters of the various hard disk
partitions. They do not revert on reboot.

I have just reinstalled my whole system. I had the problem before
reinstallation, but as far as I can recall it was not there at first
in the new installation. It is now.

TIA for any help.

Rob

 

[Nightowl]

Rob <f8YRm9@spambobLEAVETHISBITOUT.net> wrote on Thu, 5 Jul 2007:

>My DVD RW drive loads by default as E:, the lowest available letter. I
>want to use E: for something else, so I assigned it the letter Z:
>using Administrative Tools. But on reboot it reverts to E:.
>
>A virtual drive created by the InstantWrite software has the same
>problem, i.e. I cannot permanently reassign the drive letter, but
>another DVD drive which was earlier assigned to Y: is still Y:.
>
>I can successfully reassign the drive letters of the various hard disk
>partitions. They do not revert on reboot.
>
>I have just reinstalled my whole system. I had the problem before
>reinstallation, but as far as I can recall it was not there at first
>in the new installation. It is now.

Hi Rob

Are you perhaps using Zone Alarm? This was a known problem in version
6.5.x.x; I'm not sure about later ones. If you think this might apply to
you, have a look here:
http://forum.zonelabs.org/zonelabs/board/message?board.id=gen&message.id=37443

--
Nightowl

 

[Uwe Sieber]

Re: Assigned new drive letter to DVD drive. Reverts to old letteron reboot.

It's a known problem with ZoneAlarm 6.5. Norton GoBack is also
suspected to cause this.

Uwe


Rob wrote:
> My DVD RW drive loads by default as E:, the lowest available letter. I
> want to use E: for something else, so I assigned it the letter Z:
> using Administrative Tools. But on reboot it reverts to E:.
>
> A virtual drive created by the InstantWrite software has the same
> problem, i.e. I cannot permanently reassign the drive letter, but
> another DVD drive which was earlier assigned to Y: is still Y:.
>
> I can successfully reassign the drive letters of the various hard disk
> partitions. They do not revert on reboot.
>
> I have just reinstalled my whole system. I had the problem before
> reinstallation, but as far as I can recall it was not there at first
> in the new installation. It is now.
>
> TIA for any help.
>
> Rob

 

[Zilbandy]

On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:53:56 +0200, Uwe Sieber <mail@uwe-sieber.de>
wrote:

>It's a known problem with ZoneAlarm 6.5. Norton GoBack is also
>suspected to cause this.
>

Apparently ZA 6.5.737 fixed the problem. I was able to change my dvd
drive letter and after rebooting, the new drive letter was showing
correctly.

>Uwe
>
>
>Rob wrote:
>> My DVD RW drive loads by default as E:, the lowest available letter. I
>> want to use E: for something else, so I assigned it the letter Z:
>> using Administrative Tools. But on reboot it reverts to E:.

--
Zilbandy

 

[Uwe Sieber]

Re: Assigned new drive letter to DVD drive. Reverts to old letteron reboot.

Zilbandy wrote:
>
>> It's a known problem with ZoneAlarm 6.5. Norton GoBack is also
>> suspected to cause this.
>>
>
> Apparently ZA 6.5.737 fixed the problem. I was able to change my dvd
> drive letter and after rebooting, the new drive letter was showing
> correctly.


Thanks for the info!

 

[Rob]

Yes, ZA, it was, though I was using version 7. I removed it from the
startup directory, but that was not enough. I uninstalled it and my
drives are not reverting.

So, what is a good alternative free firewall?

Thanks all.

Rob

On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 15:34:24 -0700, Zilbandy
<zil@zilbandyREMOVETHIS.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 05 Jul 2007 18:53:56 +0200, Uwe Sieber <mail@uwe-sieber.de>
>wrote:
>
>>It's a known problem with ZoneAlarm 6.5. Norton GoBack is also
>>suspected to cause this.
>>
>
>Apparently ZA 6.5.737 fixed the problem. I was able to change my dvd
>drive letter and after rebooting, the new drive letter was showing
>correctly.
>
>>Uwe
>>
>>
>>Rob wrote:
>>> My DVD RW drive loads by default as E:, the lowest available letter. I
>>> want to use E: for something else, so I assigned it the letter Z:
>>> using Administrative Tools. But on reboot it reverts to E:.

 

[Zilbandy]

On Fri, 06 Jul 2007 09:57:09 +0100, Rob
<f8YRm9@spambobLEAVETHISBITOUT.net> wrote:

>Yes, ZA, it was, though I was using version 7. I removed it from the
>startup directory, but that was not enough. I uninstalled it and my
>drives are not reverting.
>
>So, what is a good alternative free firewall?

Well, now that your drives are like you want them, may I recommend ZA.
Reinstall it and it should be happy.

--
Zilbandy