No C Drive for Softwrap Registration

SpellCaster · Post by **SpellCaster** » Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:57 pm

I wanted to try out ther trial version of VideoStudio 9, but my hard drive is I: instead of C:. C-F are removable media drives and G & H are DVD-RW drives. Windows set itself up this way and I was unable to change it... unless I reinstalled.

Is there a registry setting I can change for VideoStudio 9 to point towards the I drive? Maybe I could use a SD card everytime I wanted to use the program. Anyone else ran across this problem?

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sat Mar 11, 2006 9:06 pm

One way is to designate a folder on your I drive to be treated as a Hard Drive. Dependant upon your operating system it may be a case of using the DOS command SUBST. though there are various other ways.

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Post by **Ron P.** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 4:02 am

Are you using WinXP? If so you can accomplish this in the following manner. This is found in the Windows Help (F1), and in the search box, enter "assign Drive Letter" without the quotes.

Right click on My Computer and select Manage, this will open Computer Management Window.
From the pop up, select Disk Management.
Now Right Click on the Drive you want to change (in the top Right window), in your case it would be I.
Now in the drop-down menu choose Change Drive Letter and paths.
Change your " I " drive to " C ".

NOTE
You may have to change the C drive first, to some other drive letter in order to change the I to C.

Hope that helps..

Ron P.

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 10:51 am

Further to the reply by Ron, This will work for drive letters other than the drive letter containing the operating system or boot drive.
You can assign it an extra drive letter so that you have an I drive and a C drive but they are in fact one and the same.

Another problem when changing drive letters is that many programs look for other things like ini files, dll files or just plain data files in a certain location which doesnt exist when you change the drive letter. So the method works but has pitfalls.

A system I used to employ a few years ago when creating a networked data management system at work involved all the computers at work connecting to one computer containing the data. That drive was designated drive G.

For development purposes at home on a Windows 98 computer (it was a few years ago!) I would create a folder on my C drive (Didn't have lots of drives them days!) and then use the SUBST command so that the computer treated that folder like a seperate hard drive with the drive letter G.

You can also achieve the extra drive letter method by network sharing a folder and then using the connect network drive command to connect to that folder and again designate a drive letter.

You have plenty of choices.

Hoping that the suggestions by Ron and myself help.
Regards
Steve J

sjj1805 · Post by **sjj1805** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 12:33 pm

Further to the above. An example of how and when to use the method mentioned by Ron is my current computer setup.

I have 3 internal but removable hard drives plus 2 external hard drives.
Here I assign the drive letters using the method described above by Ron.
As one example I keep my Home Accounts system on drive letter Z within a Microsoft Access Database. I have written a routine into the Home Accounts program that upon closure copies the datafiles also kept on drive Z onto one of the removable drives designated letter G.

Now If I slide out my C drive and place another C drive in its place my Home Accounts program continues to work correctly because I have assigned specific drive letters. This is useful in case my 'normal' C drive packs up in some way. Also the back up system performs correctly because the external drive always has drive letter G.

Should anyone wish to do the same set up, then you have to assign the drive letters after you first install an operating system. So if you take out drive C and replace it with another, initialy the drive assignments may be different and so you use the method outlined by Ron.

Once assigned they remain assigned for that particular operating system unless you later make hardware changes such as inserting an extra item requiring a drive letter such as a second CD/DVD writer. No problem you just repeat the drive letter assignment process again.

Hope this doesn't sound confusing, in fact its pretty simple.
Steve J

SpellCaster · Post by **SpellCaster** » Mon Mar 13, 2006 8:52 pm

Cool! Thanks everyone. I'll have try some of these later tonight.

Yeah, it's XP (Pro).