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Thread ID: 2279	1999-08-12 11:52:00	Changed CD ROM letter after new hard drive	Guest (0)	Press F1

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2663	1999-08-12 11:52:00	I have just installed a Seagate 4.3GB H/D to my Pentium 133 system (Win98, 48MB RAM)to go alongside the old Quantum 1.2GB H/D. The Seagate is set as the master. The installation went fine and I used the Disc Manager software which came with the H/D. I also tried to run the CD update part of this programme which changes the CD ROM reference, as the CD ROM is now set to 'E' instead of the old 'D'. Unfortunately I couldn't get this programme to work. The result is some of the software I have loaded does not recognise the change in CD ROM letter. Example is Office 97 which won't let me change the installed programmes within the 'Add/Remove' settings in control panel. It says that it can't find the files on 'D' drive (which is now the old hard drive). Seagate tells me that this part of the programme doesn't always work and that the best bet in those cases is to reinstall the CD ROM drivers. I have tried this without success. Is there any easy way out of this? I have tried changing the Office 97 installation from the setup on the disc but that gave a lot of error messages saying that the 'E' drive couldn't read various .exe or .dll or .hlp files it was trying to load. Indevice manager, the CD ROM is shown as 'E'. Does anyone have any ideas how to solve this problem? Thanks Darryl Lennane	Guest (0)
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