DVD writer will not retain its assigned drive letter

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I have a new home-built machine, with Intel D975 BX2 Extreme motherboard,
Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme processor, etc., etc., and a RAID 0 dual SATA 300
hard drive array, partitioned C:\, D:\ and E:\

I have installed two identical Pioneer DVD R/W drives as Master and Slave on
the IDE/ATAPI bus..

When left to its own devices, the operating system will obviously allocate
the DVD drives with F:\ and G:\ respectively.

However, as with other builds I've successfully completed in the past, I
want to permanently change the DVD drive letters to X:\ and Y:\., which I
have done in Drive Management.

The problem is though one will retain its new status as X:\ the other
reverts back to F:\ every time I start the computer, and it is driving me
nuts! I can't find anything related to this problem on the Microsoft
Knowledge Base.

Any ideas, please, anyone?

Thanks

Chris
 
Natsman said:
I have a new home-built machine, with Intel D975 BX2 Extreme motherboard,
Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme processor, etc., etc., and a RAID 0 dual SATA 300
hard drive array, partitioned C:\, D:\ and E:\

I have installed two identical Pioneer DVD R/W drives as Master and Slave
on the IDE/ATAPI bus..

When left to its own devices, the operating system will obviously allocate
the DVD drives with F:\ and G:\ respectively.

However, as with other builds I've successfully completed in the past, I
want to permanently change the DVD drive letters to X:\ and Y:\., which I
have done in Drive Management.

The problem is though one will retain its new status as X:\ the other
reverts back to F:\ every time I start the computer, and it is driving me
nuts! I can't find anything related to this problem on the Microsoft
Knowledge Base.

Any ideas, please, anyone?
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Try doing the fix with TweakUI or it may be a stuck Registry Key.
 
TweakUI doesn't seem to help - I need to display all drives as I frequently
connect external hard drives.

Which registry key should I look at?

Chris
 
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