Changing my drive letters (Floppy A:, IDE C: CD-Rom D:)

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Help! I recently installed a new CD-RW drive in my computer. When I
re-started it, for the changes the take effect, it had changed my hard drive
letter to E: instead of C:, now everytime I want to download something, or
install a program, it tells me that it cannot find the path or that the disk
is full. How can I solve this problem or change the letters on the installed
drives so that my Hard Drive goes back to the default C:?

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Thanks for your help Bar. Whay does SATA and PATA stands for?

"BAR" wrote:

> I am amazed that a new Optical Device has been assigned drive letter C.
>
> This drive letter is generally 'reserved' and is your system drive letter.
>
> Also you have managed to move TWO drives ahead of the C Drive in terms of
> priority.
>
> Is your system disk a SATA or PATA disk?
>
> If it is PATA, it should be installed on the first IDE interface adapter of
> the motherboard, it should be jumpered as MASTER and if there is a second
> device [Hard Drive or Optical Drive] on the same IDE cable the second device
> should be jumpered as SLAVE.
> The 'new' CD should be on the second IDE interface adapter of the
> motherboard, it should be jumpered as MASTER.
>
> If it is a SATA hard drive, then you'll need to check in the Mobo Manual to
> ensure that you have identified the SATA adapter as the primary boot device.
>
> "Frank" wrote:
>
> > Help! I recently installed a new CD-RW drive in my computer. When I
> > re-started it, for the changes the take effect, it had changed my hard drive
> > letter to E: instead of C:, now everytime I want to download something, or
> > install a program, it tells me that it cannot find the path or that the disk
> > is full. How can I solve this problem or change the letters on the installed
> > drives so that my Hard Drive goes back to the default C:?