I'm having a serious mental lapse here. I can't for the life of me remember how I changed the drive letter on my LS120 (external, parallel port) in W98, and now I need to do it in 2000 (dual boot). Whatever you do for Zip dives may be similar. The only thing I've worked out is that you don't do it the same way as you do for CD drives.
As I told you before this is a driver issue, so it depends on how the driver implements this. In the old Windows 98 drivers it was in:
Start>Settings>Control Panel>System>Device Manager Under "Disk Drives.
I think that the name there was SuperDisk Drive, and then you had to check Properties and reserve a drive letter (You couldn't reserve "A" or "B" as I recall, those were only for floppy drives) In the Beta driver you have, that could have changed, as the implementation maybe is different.
#2. "RE: Changing Drive Letters" In response to Roni (Reply # 1)
Roni, I can't check until I get home tonight, but I couldn't even find it in 98 thru Device Manager, unlike my CD and CDRWs. The Reserve Drive Letter option isn't there, but it's obviously somewhere, because I did it in 98 when I first installed the drive. It's been Z in 98 for 3 years.
Hopefully, somewhere in the mess of my computer room I'll find something on paper.
I have a Castlewood Orb drive on it's own parallel port card.
It shows up in disk drives along with the hard drive and floppy like Roni says. >Start>Settings>Control Panel>System>Device Manager Under "Disk Drives.<
You choose the drive letter for my Orb from a menu the same way you do for the CD drive.
Paul you may already have solved your problem but if not you might give this a try. Go to Start/Programs/Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Storage/Disk Management. Select the drive you want to change and click the Action tab and then select Change Drive Letter and Path. I believe this will allow you to edit the drive letters the way you want them. This may not work with your devices but it worked fine when I added a second hard drive to my system. The second hard drive was placed after my existing CD ROM and I was able to rename the new hard drive to D and the CD ROM to E.
In 2000, it is listed as a high capacity floppy drive, appears with the other floppy drives, and doesn't offer the option. It doesn't appear with the hard drives and CD drives in Disk Management.
