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Orinoco · 06-01-2003

@Kas: I'm not 100% sure why this happens, but I think this is because of a combination of the following;

(1) the card reader is not a 'real' drive, but is a USB device masquerading as a drive and
(2) that the virtual drive is seen as a SCSI device which is automatically put first in the order of CD/DVD drives. Thus causing the other devices [after C] to automatically re-order themselves.

If this is true then the drivers for the card reader are flawed in that they appear to be bound to a specific letter rather than allowing a dynamic drive letter allocation like it should be.

My suggestion is to disconnect the USB card reader, install the CloneCD virtual drive [should you wish to use it] then use Device Manager to re-assign the virtual drive to a higher letter. I tend to use V: [for Virtual] but that is just my choice. The re-attach the card reader and it should come back as G:

06-01-2003	#4 (permalink)
Orinoco CD Freaks Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Kent, UK Posts: 485	@Kas: I'm not 100% sure why this happens, but I think this is because of a combination of the following; (1) the card reader is not a 'real' drive, but is a USB device masquerading as a drive and (2) that the virtual drive is seen as a SCSI device which is automatically put first in the order of CD/DVD drives. Thus causing the other devices [after C] to automatically re-order themselves. If this is true then the drivers for the card reader are flawed in that they appear to be bound to a specific letter rather than allowing a dynamic drive letter allocation like it should be. My suggestion is to disconnect the USB card reader, install the CloneCD virtual drive [should you wish to use it] then use Device Manager to re-assign the virtual drive to a higher letter. I tend to use V: [for Virtual] but that is just my choice. The re-attach the card reader and it should come back as G: __________________ Make it up..? Life is bad enough as it is. Why would I want to invent more of it! - Marvin Windows XP Pro SP2 + hotfixes, Core2Quad Q6600 2.4GHz, MSI P35 Platinum, 4096MB DDR2-800 (4x 1024MB), ASUS E616A2 (fw. 1.03), Pioneer DVR-111D (fw. 1.23), Hitachi Deskstar P7K500 500GB + 320GB 16Mb S300, Nvidia GeForce 8800GT (512Mb)