Zip drive problem
Bill J Gray Apr 13, 2002
Errrmmm... I'm afraid I missed a central point of the earlier posts
on Zip drives: use of them can shift the CD drive from, say, e:
to f: and back, depending on whether the drive is in use at the time.
My previous comment, that Guide ought to be giving an "insert the
Guide CD" error message in such cases rather than simply showing
bizarre data, remains. But there is a solution to this problem of
moving drive letters. Edit STARTUP.MAR and look for this line:
18 drive e:\
and change it to read as follows:
18 drive e:\;f:\
Do this, and Guide will examine _both_ drives when it starts up.
It won't find anything on one drive (or will find non-Guide-related data),
and will find the Guide CD in the other.
I had contemplated having Guide 8.0 do a search for Guide CDs,
on all possible drive letters, at startup time. I didn't do this because I
couldn't come up with much of a good use for it, except on systems
with multiple CD drives. (In that case, it could be handy to have Guide
automagically detect that disk 1 was in drive K: and disk 2 in drive X:,
for example.) But perhaps this capability is more useful than I thought,
given how common Zip and similar removable-media hard drives are...
-- Bill