My best guess is that F-I are slots for memory cards like SD cards. I only ever use the SD card reader but it has four slots for different kinds of memeory and they all get assigned a drive letter..
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 8:11 PM, Richard P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry I missed out on on the fun discussion today, I was unavoidably > detained. > > Your point make me wary to change the drive letters even though the > removable media Disks 2-5 (F-I) currently have no drives assigned to > them other than it saying that they are removable and there is currently > no media. My guess is that these volumes (?) are default for any future > internal media drives which may be installed, but I'm not sure. I would > hate to change one and not be able to fix it back if it didn't work. > > What really throws me off is that Windows is telling me to transfer my > settings to these non-existent drives and won't allow an option to save > to existing drives. Is there a way around this? > > It is interesting to note that these F-I "drives" show up in Windows > Explore but when clicked on, asks to insert a disk. The only disk drive > that I have is E which is a DVD/CD drive. So what are these F-I disk drives? > > Richard P. > > > Tom Piwowar wrote: > >> When you start up an application in Windows, the operating system needs > >> to know where to find the various components. If you happen to locate > >> some components in other than the default locations, > >> > > > > Studying many years in the school of hard knocks I have found that > > locating any components in other than the default locations is asking for > > trouble. All too often some idiot program will hard code the path, > > causing the user great pain. > > > > Before OS X, Mac users would laugh about this Windows-only problem. Now > > in the land of Unix the best advice for OS X users is the same... > > > > Never move any application-related files from default locations. > > > > Never rename any application-related directories from default names. > > > > > > > > > I want to use the Win XP File and Settings Transfer Wizard to save my > > configuration but it only opens up save options for default External > > Drives F, G, H, and I, all of which have nothing attached to them. When > > I hook an external USB hard drive, it shows up as the first available > > letter, "J", which isn't an option for the Wizard. > > > > > > > > How can I get my "J" external drive to show up in the transfer wizard > > defaults? It doesn't allow browsing for my selection and when I try to > > change the "J" external drive letter, F, G, H, and I are not listed as > > an option. > > > > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o) ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
