CD Drive problem

[hockyfan]

I'm using Windows XP Home, I have two CD drives, one of which, drive (D:), is my CD burner. I've had no problems until today, I insert a blank CD (and many more after that to try out) and autoplay didn't detect it. Then I double click on the drive in My Computer and I get this error: D:\ is not accessible. Incorrect function.

Any ideas?


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[Wayne Luke]

Assuming it has power and you already double checked the connections.

Go into the Computer Manager under Control Panel -> Administrative Tools and give it a new drive letter. If it doesn't recognize it immediately, reboot.

[hockyfan]

That worked, thanks Wayne. :)


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[Wayne Luke]

You are welcome. Had the same problem on one of my XP Home machines a while back. Kind of a weird glitch.

[assassingod]

Sorry to hi-jack this thread, but if I were to change the letter of a drive, would that cause any problems? Is it relatively simple or not?

[Zachery]

Depends on the drive, if its your windows drive.. yes. Otherwise, you might just break some shortcuts and such.

[hockyfan]

Didn't cause any problems when I did, except for my desktop shortcut, as Zachery said.


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[Wayne Luke]

Sorry to hi-jack this thread, but if I were to change the letter of a drive, would that cause any problems? Is it relatively simple or not? It can cause problems but they are usually minor. I don't think it will let you change the letter of your boot drive.

The only issue I have found when changing the drive letters of removable storage is sometimes the installer looks for that specific drive if you want to update the software. I know Microsoft Office does this but even that is minor because you can change the path in the registry.

At least with being able to assign drive letters, you can avoid the drive bouncing that occured with older versions of Windows. For example you had a CD-ROM which was D: and installed a new harddrive and the CD-ROM became E:. In XP by default the new drive would become E:. What I like to do when I install a new copy of Windows XP is assign the Removeable storage as high as possible. For example my CD-RW is Y: and my DVD-ROM is Z:. Makes it more logical if I add drives and simply let Windows assign them. Of course this is all moot if I mount the drive as a directory of another drive.

[assassingod]

Thanks for the info Wayne+Zach:)

I didn't want to change the boot drive, but as you explained I might change some removable drives - External Hard Drive, USB memory pens, digicams etc.