Change the drive letter for virtual and physical optical drives

Registration Form Method

Open the registry, search for "key value", "Match entire string": "InstallSource", find a key value data for your physical CD drive letter, when (if your CD drive letter is M, the value is displayed as "M:"). Change this value to your virtual CD drive letter (if your virtual CD drive letter is n, change this to "N:"). Do not enter the quotation number!

　　Using virtual CD-ROM software

After you install the virtual optical drive software, virtual CD-ROM disk specifier in front of the original system physical optical drive, so that the original physical optical drive to reverse the letter, which will cause the installed part of the software can not be used normally, open the "control Panel → system → Device Manager →cd-rom", double-click your physical optical drive device name, In the open optical drive properties, click the "Settings" tab. Then adjust the letter in the "Keep drive letter" below, and then reboot it.

　　Direct modification

In the Windows 9X system, first access to the Control Panel, then open the system → Device Manager →cd-rom option, select the real optical drive you want to modify, click the Properties button, select the Settings tab in the Properties dialog box, and then set the start drive letter and last drive letter are modified to the desired letter "Z:".

　　Specify a Physical disk letter

In Windows XP, to specify the drive letter for a physical disk, click Start, click Control Panel, click Disk Management in the console tree, right-click the optical drive, click Change Drive name and path, click the disk drive letter, click the Change button, and finally under assign the following drive letter Drop-down list box, click the drive letter you want to use.