how do I make a drive letter for a manually installed cdrom?
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Right click on my computer - choose Manage\nGo to Storage - Disk management.\nRightclick your cdrom drive and choose "change drive letter and path".
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Assuming that the device exists as /dev/dvd\n\nFirst you need somewhere to mount it and you need to be root to do it. Create a mount point eg mkdir /media/dvd, put a disk in the drive and then mount the disk with the command mount /dev/dvd -t iso9660 /media/dvd
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hi there,\nit is so simple to format a pc. just take a bootable cd and in bios, select frist boot device as cdrom.\n\nboot ur pc with cd rom support using bootable cd or just start pc in gui mode and type command \nformat c:\nc: --> is ur drive letter which u want to format.\n\nif u want to format ur frist drive then u must have to boot with cd rom support otherwise in gui mode u cannt format ur c: drive coz currently u r working on that and u cant format a drive in which u r working currently.\nnote:- if u want to format c drive then frist change the drive letter c to d or e, f ,g\nto change ur drive letter type command --> d:\n\ngood luck!!!
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If your Operating system is windows xp then below mentioned steps are for you \n\nTo change an existing drive letter on a drive, on a partition, or on a volume, follow these steps: 1. Log on as Administrator or as a member of the Administrators group. \n2. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Performance and Maintenance.  \n3. Click Administrative Tools, double-click Computer Management, and then click Disk Management in the left pane. \n4. Right-click the drive, the partition, the logical drive, or the volume that you want to assign a drive letter to, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths. \n5. Click Change. \n6. Click Assign the following drive letter if it is not already selected, click the drive letter that you want to use, and then click OK.  \n7. Click Yes when you are prompted to confirm the drive letter change \nThe drive letter of the drive, the partition, or the volume that you specified is changed, and the new drive letter appears in the appropriate drive, partition, or volume in the Disk Management tool. \n\nTo remove a assigned drive letter follow this steps\n\n1. Log on as Administrator or as a member of the Administrators group. \n2. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Performance and Maintenance.  \n3. Click Administrative Tools, double-click Computer Management, and then click Disk Management in the left pane. \n4. Right-click the drive, the partition, the logical drive, or the volume that you want to assign a drive letter to, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths. \n5. Click Remove. \n6. Click Yes when you are prompted to confirm the removal.
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Connect your old hard disk to the IDE slot that your CD-ROM drive is using. You can even leave it connected together with your CD-ROM drive if you want. \n\nYou just have to plug the IDE cable into both the CD-ROM and the hard disk. Set your CD-ROM as master and the hard disk as slave.\n\nGo to BIOS and see if your hard disk has been recognised. Once it is done, reboot your PC and transfer the files from the old disk to teh new one. \nUSB to IDE cables are also available which can be made use of in case you want donot want to open up your PC and play around with the peripherals and the cables.
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There is no shortcut that you can create, as this is being readas a Mass Storage Device, which means that the associated drive letter is dynamic depending on the available Active drives in My Computer...
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no option dude got to have the cd\nor go to a different system with internet down the drivers from internet and use floppy to save the file in ur system and restart
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You could do as suggested with Disk Utility as well.  Try making it into a Sparce Image.
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you need a win98 start up floppy disk with cdrom support on it, it will install generic drivers to run the cd drive
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The simplest way is to format drive E from your Windows 98 OS.... It would sure solve ur problem and u could use drive E for some other work...\n\nContact me if u need any other questions...\n\nat designursite@yahoo.com .........and my id : designursite\n\nbye
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at the command prompt. type "FORMAT D: /q |y" \n(without the double quote and assuming your 8gb is on drive d)
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Fill the requirements for copying data to CD first.\nHardware::\n 52x HP/Sony/Asus Combo or simple R/RW CD recorder\n CD Recordable (Sony/Maxell)\nSoftware::\n Windows XP OS (Support CD writing)\n Nero Burning Rom 7, Nero Xpress, Nero suite 7 or higher\n\nInsert CDR into the CD R/RW, run nero xpress,\nadd files to write on to the cdrom\nok, press burn cd process starts.\nAfter completion check the CDrom for written file remove and reload the CD first.\n\nhttp://360.yahoo.com/jcbroogley
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You can download the bootdisk image complete with ide cdrom drivers from the web.
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from the command prompt\n\nconvert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs\n\ne.g.:  convert c: /fs:ntfs
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If you are installing WinXP:\n1- Go to your CD (like E:) by typing E: then enter\n2- type cd i386 then enter\n3- type winnt\n4- it will ask you (May be) for the cd rom drive letter.
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On XP or 2000, right click on My-Computer and choose MANAGE, then Disk Management, right click on Drive K: and choose 'change drive letter' and change it to I:\n\nbut in order to do that, the drive letter I: must NOT be in-use, so if it is, change that to something else first to free the drive letter and then follow the above ...
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Press F2 on startup and go into the boot sequence and change to the cd drive.  Hit the escape button then save and exit.\n\n|||||||||||\n(¤¿¤)\n''''O''''