[stuffman]

Hey everybody,
I'm looking for a way to script the reassignment of a drive letter for a cdrom (diskpart doesn't 'see' CD drives), assign a partition the drive letter that the cdrom used to have, then format the partition with the new drive letter. I've tried creating a custom mmc console called diskadmin.msc and using M$ Scriptit to do this for me, but I can't get it to work since the mmc console is the active window, and the snap-in resides within it. Does anyone know if there is an executable within Win2k like there was in NT for getting to Disk Administrator from the command line? Basically I need diskadmin to run on it's own, and not within a mmc console window. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Noise]

Oh Alright, I'll give up my little utility. remember people, I had this first.

copy to your system32 directory - call from the command line to get usage.

It will change the drive letter of any installed CD/DVD drive(s) from the command line. It does no error checking - for example, if you try to assign the 1st cdrom drive as drive C:, it doesn't check to see if drive C: is already allocated and strange things like black holes may form.

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•  setcddl.exe (32K)
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[stuffman]

YOU ROCK!!!! Thanks,

Shawn

[stuffman]

So what's the syntax for this util? Can you say setcddl x: d: to move it from x: to d:, or do use setcddl d: and it grabs whatever CD drive it finds and assigns it the d:\ drive letter? I tried using setcddl.exe /? but no luck. Thanks,

Shawn

[Noise]

Just type setcddl.exe in the command window to get usage - NO SWITCHES.

Here, I'll do it for ya:

C:\>setcddl
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SETCDDL.EXE - Changes Drive letter assignments for devices in Win2000
Version 1.0 - March 17th, 2000 by Steven Haack - Microsoft Consulting Services
------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Usage: setcddl <Drive> <Device name>    add a drive letter
       setcddl -r <Drive>               remove a drive letter
       setcddl -c <Drive>               Changes 1st CD-Rom to specified drive
                                        letter

Example: setcddl e:\ \Device\CdRom0     Sets CD-Rom0 to drive e:\
         setcddl -r e:\                 Removes e:\ from associated device
         setcddl -c e:\                 Changes 1st Cd-Rom to e:\

NOTE: You cannot set a device to a specified drive letter, if there is already
      a drive letter associated with that device. You must remove the current
      drive letter first, and then assign a new one. The -c option to change
      the drive letter of the 1st CD-Rom does the removal for you.

[scp]

stuffman, on Jun 10 2004, 11:21 AM, said:

Hey everybody,
I'm looking for a way to script the reassignment of a drive letter for a cdrom (diskpart doesn't 'see' CD drives), assign a partition

Why diskpart doesn't see CD-ROM drives?
If I enter LIST VOL I get all types of drives with letters listed.
Then you can use SEL VOL x and REMOVE and ASSIGN LETTER=Y.

See this post for details

[stuffman]

Whoa, you were right. Diskpart does see CD drives. Thanks, that helps a lot! I've got all drive assignment handled through one script now!

Shawn