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jgr789

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January 29th, 2006 19:00

Removable Disk D, E, F, G, DVD Drive (H)and DVD-RW Drive (I)

I just bought a Dell Dim E510 with 16X DVD-ROM and 16X DVD+/-RW.  I also wanted the 13 in 1 media card reader and the Floppy disk drive.  I was disappointed that the Floppy was an external unit because I thought it was going to be built in, however they built in the media card reader.
 
My question here is and I hope it's not a really stupid one, when I open "My Computer", it lists Local disk (C); but then it lists under Devices with Removable Storage: 3 1/2 Floppy (A); then Removable Disk (D), (E), (F), and (G), DVD Drive (H)and DVD-RW Drive (I) .  This is my first experience with Windows XP so I'm not at all sure what I'm looking at.  I actually have an external drive that I would like to install but I don't know what will happen with all those Drive letters.
 
My old computer had Win 98 and when I added a second hard drive with partitions and a CD Burner, I had several Drives listed but I knew that each letter either represented a hard drive or a partition. With this new computer, I'm not sure what Drives D, E, F and G are referring to.  I'm assuming C isn't partitioned into smaller drives because the D - G are listed under Devices with Removable Storage. It just seems very confusing.
 
Again, I'm hoping this isn't a really stupid question. 
 
The other problem I have is I'm not at all sure what I can do with the 16X DVD-ROM and 16X DVD+/-RW drives.  Are there any instructions or articles around that could help me learn about them?
 
Thanks in advance for your help.
 

osprey4

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January 29th, 2006 20:00

Looks like you must have a card reader. You can change the drive letters if you like.
 
The dual drives come in handy for doing disc-to-disc copies. Most of the time, you'll use your ROM drive, and only once in a while will you be burning discs in the DVD±RW.

jgr789

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January 29th, 2006 22:00

Are you saying Drives D,E,F and G are the card reader?
 
Thanks.

Skybird

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January 29th, 2006 23:00

Yes, D, E, F, and G are the card readers; and H and I are the CD drives.
If you add a removable hard drive it will likely be J.

My system has the card reader also and matches you letters, except, my
hard drive has three partitions, C, J, and K.

youngnot

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February 5th, 2006 12:00

I have seen yor name on a lot of reply post I am new to the forum and so far it's better than the dell tech support. I have the same setup on an e310 I made dvd rom d and dvdrw e dvd's on ide primary both drives jumpers set to master there is a loose orange wire parallel to data cable. card reader on ide secondary is this normal? I had to reinstall xp after ghost 2003 wouldn't see usb keyboard.I'd rather have a floppy is the success rate pretty good on repairing mbr? unknown partition fat 32 healthy fat partitions deleted.sorry for the verbosity mike

osprey4

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February 8th, 2006 12:00

Mike:

Sorry, you've completely stumped me. What is your question?

1barnwell

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April 9th, 2016 09:00

jgr789 wrote the following post at 29 Jan 2006 9:18 PM:

I just bought a Dell Dim E510 with 16X DVD-ROM and 16X DVD+/-RW.  I also wanted the 13 in 1 media card reader and the Floppy disk drive.  I was disappointed that the Floppy was an external unit because I thought it was going to be built in, however they built in the media card reader.
 
My question here is and I hope it's not a really stupid one, when I open "My Computer", it lists Local disk (C); but then it lists under Devices with Removable Storage: 3 1/2 Floppy (A); then Removable Disk (D), (E), (F), and (G), DVD Drive (H)and DVD-RW Drive (I) .  This is my first experience with Windows XP so I'm not at all sure what I'm looking at.  I actually have an external

beamermt79

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April 9th, 2016 13:00

Can someone lock this thread, its older then dirt...

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April 9th, 2016 14:00

This thread has been locked due to it's age, if you have a similar issue, please use the 'New Post' feature at the top of this page and start a new thread.
  
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