+1, but mine goes to "O:" -- ME2
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 5:59 AM, Steven M. Caesare <[email protected]>wrote: > +1. > > > > Mine goes to “R:” > > > > -sc > > > > > > *From:* Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] > *Sent:* Thursday, March 18, 2010 6:48 AM > > *To:* NT System Admin Issues > *Subject:* Re: CMD line way to change CD Rom drive letter > > > > I actually enjoy changing the optical drive to Z: > > > > It makes things more consistent... > > > -ASB: http://XeeSM.com/AndrewBaker > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 7:29 PM, Steven Peck <[email protected]> wrote: > > We have a stupid requirement to change the CD drive from whatever it > is (usually D) to Z:. > Usually I remember it and since I haev powershell up any cmdline tool > is good. On the 3 servers I checked it was volume 0. > > I like the wmi check method idea and will have to go play with it in > powershell and come up with something more fun. If I do that I can > make the SCCM guys who are setting up the OSD build process just > include that in the build and not have to worry about it at all. > > Thanks, > Steven > > > > > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 2:36 PM, Michael B. Smith <[email protected]> > wrote: > > True. It was intended as an example. I probably should've noted that. > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael B. Smith > > Consultant and Exchange MVP > > http://TheEssentialExchange.com > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Brian Desmond [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 5:36 PM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: RE: CMD line way to change CD Rom drive letter > > > > Note that this is not necessarily going to give you the CDROM drive. The > way I do this in my build tool is I use WMI to find the CDROM drive letter > than I use diskpart to change it. Note that there is a corner case of a > machine with multiple CD/DVD drives. > > > > Thanks, > > Brian Desmond > > [email protected] > > > > c - 312.731.3132 > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Michael B. Smith [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 4:10 PM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: RE: CMD line way to change CD Rom drive letter > > > > Diskpart.exe > > Select volume 1 > > Assign letter=Z > > Quit > > > > Regards, > > > > Michael B. Smith > > Consultant and Exchange MVP > > http://TheEssentialExchange.com > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Steven Peck [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 5:01 PM > > To: NT System Admin Issues > > Subject: CMD line way to change CD Rom drive letter > > > > My google/bing-fu is failing me today. When we build servers we change > the CDrom drive to Z:. While this is nice, manually changing it is > annoying. Anyone know a standard / built in way to do this? > > I'd like to just script it with powershell (just because it would annoy > some of my co-workers) but would be happy for any of the cmdline utilities > to work. > > > > Thanks > > Steven > > > > > > > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
