I would be most thankful for some advice on this. I've just bought a Compact Presario 7880. My first non-clone ever. I thought this was get rid of those fiddly setup problems. But I have this one. I can't burn CD-ROMs although it came installed with bundled software to do so. I'm running Win98 and CeQuadrat PacketCD for burning CDs. I have only a single DVD drive drive (D:) which reads DVDs and CD-ROMs. If I run a DVD it runs from the D: drive as does a CD ROM. However when I run the CeQuadrat PacketCD software it looks for a blank CD/R or CD/RW on E: drive - and doesn't have an option to change this. When I look at the Device Manager in Windows is says that the IDE-CD R/RW is assigned drive E: But I have only one physical drive. Can I reassign IDE-CD R/RW to also be drive D:? If so - how? Thanking you very much - in advance Neil Pollock Sydney, Australia

Correction: This sentence is incorrect: However when I run the CeQuadrat PacketCD software it looks for a blank CD/R or CD/RW on E: drive - and doesn't have an option to change this. It should read: However when I run the CeQuadrat PacketCD software it looks for a blank CD/R or CD/RW on D: drive - and doesn't have an option to change this. It can't find the CD/RW on the D: drive because in the Device Manager in Windows is says that the IDE-CD R/RW is assigned drive E: Sorry for being confused/ing

Go to Control Panel, Admin Tools, Computer Management Disk Management (sub group of storage)and change the drive letter of the last drive to one later e.g. G to H, reboot, and change each consecutive drive to the letter required.

But Mike isn't this an NT solution? I didn't think there were Admin Tools in Win98

G'day Neil, let me get this straight, you have a DVD which reads but not writes,OK, and you have software to write with but nothing to write on, am I close, then the software wants to write to E: but you do not have an E:, how am I doing?, and Win98 is saying you have a writer on E: but you do not actually have a writer at all, just a DVD that is D: that reads only. If I'm right you cannot do any burning at all because you don't have a burner for the sofware which may only write to a specific brand of writer, I am confused. Am I close or of the track here Neil. Did the software come with the DVD? or bought as a seperate item? R.R. Melb./ south of the border

Let me help: <> No I have a DVD drive that is also the same drive which according to the CD burning software is where you burn your CD ROMs to. That's not a problem. <> Actually the software wants to write to D: but the Computer has allocated E: as the drive which CD/R CD/RW to be written to. But I don't have a physical E: drive << and Win98 is saying you have a writer on E: but you do not actually have a writer at all,>> Yes I have a writer. That's in the burning software - but it writes to D: You don't need a separate drive to play your DVDS and CD ROMs and also the burn your CD ROMs. All this can exist on the same drive - which is a DVD drive. <> No you can copy to D: but Windows has been set up so that it thinks that the drive to write to is E:. I just want to change that drive to D: <> Maybe now. Thanks for trying to work it out. But I guess it's pretty simple really. I need to change the IDE-CD/R CD/RW drive from being E: to being D: That what I think I need to do anyway. <> DVD and software came with the Compaq computer. I just stipulated what I wanted and it all came preloaded but with no discs. Ta Neil

G'day again Neil, this could be a long-shot but is there an .ini file in either the Windows or the program's folder for the Software, it could be pointing to E: for some strange reason. And in Device Manager are both the little white boxes checked as D: [or E:] for the DVD,you should be able to change it what you want except to any of the HD letters. Sorry I'm not much help here