Hello: For the past week I have been busy manipulating three hard disk drive layouts in the BIOS and deleting and creating twelve partitions. Running the BootIT Next Generation software brought several days of pain and sorrow by not obeying the laws of running WinNT 4.0 on drives other than HDD 0. Installing this OS on HDD 2, first partition proved to be a nightmare, even though the Swap option was enabled! This particular hard drive/partitioning operation have always proven a success, but it failed miserably when it booted and the partition showing drive letter E: This foul up caused the loading of subsequent utilities and programs to use E:\Program Files, unless another directory is specified. To overcome this problem, I backed up HDD 0 on the first partition and installed NT40 from there and everything worked perfectly well. CD ROM DRIVE LETTER HAVE CHANGED: Due to this manipulation and changes made to these hard drives, the cd-rom drive has changed, causing instant error messages when trying to run any of the many saved websites downloaded using the Grab-A-Site software from the BlueSquirrel company. Going to Partition Magic’s Drive Mapper and executing this product did not help. With the changes it corrected through the registry etc, these compact discs simply will not run! Finally, I copied a saved website directory to the hard drive and ran the program from that location, and it worked flawlessly. If any one of these saved compact discs run successfully from the hard drive, then could they ALL do likewise? Please note that the contents of many of these discs are historical and are recorded as such. QUESTION: Should all the CDs and DVDs be download to the hard drive and be re-recorded? Thanks in advance for your input. Regards, purdew112

Is the required letter in use by a bootable partition? Changes to drive letter assignments can be made in Disk Management. First free up the required letter by reassigning to an unused letter temporarily. Then assign that letter to the drive you want it for. Get the idea. This method works for WinXP/2000. I don't know about NT 4.0.

That'd be my suggestion too. Change the drive letter of the CD drive to whatever you want it to be. "So won’t you give this man his wings What a shame To have to beg you to see We’re not all the same What a shame" - Shinedown

Thanks, OtheHill and Jeffifer: Following your instructions to the letter and rebooting the OS definitely took care of the drive changes. However, my problem is compounded by the fact that this is the third instance of hard drive letter (cd rom changes.) Originally, it worked flawlessly while assigned (G:), but subsequent changes were made to the hdd and the cdrom moved to (D:) and PowerQuest's Drive Mapper took care of this. Later on, changes were made on one or more of the hdd, and the cdrom drive letter move up to (J:) and DriveMapper fixed this. Now, the cdrom letter has moved to (L:) and somehow the letter has not changed nor have I tried the DriveMapper routine again. However, out of a total of ten or more cds, I only tried several and one of those worked quiet well. I will continue working with this problem until it’s fixed. Again, thanks for your help. Regards, Purdew112

I think you're making way too much work for yourself. Go into Disk Management and assign the drive letter that you want for the CD Drive. "So won’t you give this man his wings What a shame To have to beg you to see We’re not all the same What a shame" - Shinedown