First post, by red_avatar
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I'm in the process of converting all my CDs to CD images with Alcohol 120%. I added a PCI card with USB 2.0 ports in my Pentium III which vastly speeds up USB speeds and allows me to run these CD images straight from 128GB USB sticks.
Basically it would mean that my entire game collection would run off two USB sticks without the need for cracks, patches or physical CDs that wear down my CD drive.
There's one problem though: the drive letter. Windows 98 insists on assigning the drive letter for the USB stick first to the D drive (the physical CD drive is E:) and basically pushes the Alcohol emulated drive to the F drive. This causes problems with certain games that demand that the CD be in the D drive. For now I have to manually remove the USB drive before each reboot to prevent the D drive from being taken by the USB stick. It takes a reboot to fix it + I have to reset the default drive for CD audio each time which is annoying.
Basically, I'd love a solution where Alcohol retains the D drive - basically, I need a way for Windows 98 to set the USB drive to a set drive number. Even if I change it, it forgets after a reboot.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Retro game fanatic.
IBM PS1 386SX25 - 4MB
IBM Aptiva 486SX33 - 8MB - 2GB CF - SB16
IBM PC350 P233MMX - 64MB - 32GB SSD - AWE64 - Voodoo2
PIII600 - 320MB - 480GB SSD - SB Live! - GF4 Ti 4200
i5-2500k - 3GB - SB Audigy 2 - HD 4870