autoplay - two devices, behave differently.

HI,

two optical drives in my XP system, one CD writer and one DVD writer.

When I insert a CD containing 3 or 4 folders with mixed files into one drive,

an autoplay box comes up within 5 seconds and ask me what program I'd like

to open or use Explorer to browse the contents, etc,etc.

However, inserting the CD into the other drive, sometimes nothing happens,

other times the autoplay window will appear after about 60 seconds delay.

Nothing wrong with the drives. I have a second install of XP on this same PC and

in there, everything works OK.

Any assistance appreciated.

EDIT - this odd symptom was resolved after using Disk Management to assign a new drive letter

to the optical drive. What the original problem was is still unknown.

I'll probably need to go into the registry and see if there is any important references to the old

drive letter, and if so, change them.

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