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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 35 |
| | Posted: | | | | I recently installed the LG GGC-H20L Super Multi Blue drive, but DVD Profiler still only sees my original DVD drive. I installed the new drive as drive B:. Maybe that is the problem, but I wouldn't think so. I even went into the registry and hacked to use B as the DVDROM drive but it didn't help. It just comes up as 'none' in profiler when I do that and still only gives me E: as my drive choice.
Any help would be appreciated. | | | | in canada, no one can hear you scream |
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| Registered: March 10, 2007 |  Posts: 4,282 |
| | Posted: | | | | DVD Profiler will only recognize optical drives 'D' through 'Z'. | | | | Invelos Software, Inc. Representative |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 35 |
| | Posted: | | | | okay, thanks Ken. I'll have to change my drive letter. | | | | in canada, no one can hear you scream |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | Assigning drive letter B: to an optical drive might also confuse other programs than just DVDProfiler.
A: and B: still are reserved for Floppy-drives and most programs don't even look for media on that drive letters anymore, because usually these are not present on modern systems. | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 |  Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | As Goblin said - Drive B is usually used as the floppy disc drive when doing a diskcopy - i.e. using diskcopy A: B: uses a single floppy disc drive - but the system knows to ask for the floppy disk to be exchanged halfway through the copy. | | | | Paul |
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 6,745 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting pauls42: Quote:
As Goblin said - Drive B is usually used as the floppy disc drive when doing a diskcopy - i.e. using diskcopy A: B: uses a single floppy disc drive - but the system knows to ask for the floppy disk to be exchanged halfway through the copy. Since when? A disc copy has always been done with disccopy a: a: Historically a: has been a 5,25" drive and b: a 3,5". Then the 5,25" died out and the 3,5" became a:, Then the 3,5" died out, too. | | | Karsten
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation:  |  Posts: 767 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting pauls42: Quote:
As Goblin said - Drive B is usually used as the floppy disc drive when doing a diskcopy - i.e. using diskcopy A: B: uses a single floppy disc drive - but the system knows to ask for the floppy disk to be exchanged halfway through the copy. Ah... sweet memories of copy a: b: Erm... am I old now?  |
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | Reputation:  | | Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting DJ Doena: Quote:
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As Goblin said - Drive B is usually used as the floppy disc drive when doing a diskcopy - i.e. using diskcopy A: B: uses a single floppy disc drive - but the system knows to ask for the floppy disk to be exchanged halfway through the copy.
Since when? A disc copy has always been done with disccopy a: a:
Historically a: has been a 5,25" drive and b: a 3,5". Then the 5,25" died out and the 3,5" became a:, Then the 3,5" died out, too. Not here, the 3.5" was always referred to as the B: Drive. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting DJ Doena: Quote:
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As Goblin said - Drive B is usually used as the floppy disc drive when doing a diskcopy - i.e. using diskcopy A: B: uses a single floppy disc drive - but the system knows to ask for the floppy disk to be exchanged halfway through the copy.
Since when? A disc copy has always been done with disccopy a: a:
Historically a: has been a 5,25" drive and b: a 3,5". Then the 5,25" died out and the 3,5" became a:, Then the 3,5" died out, too. I'm obviously going way back - in my time we never had both kind of drives in a PC. i.e. 3.5 or 5.25 And the diskcopy A: A: would have failed since it would try to copy over itself - the safest way was always diskcopy A: B: (and as long as the B: never existed), Dos would come up with a message like (it has been a while) "Insert disk for drive B:" These youngsters..See hereand here | | | | Paul | | | | Last edited: by pauls42 |
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| Registered: May 19, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,730 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting pauls42: Quote:
Quoting DJ Doena:
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Quoting pauls42:
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As Goblin said - Drive B is usually used as the floppy disc drive when doing a diskcopy - i.e. using diskcopy A: B: uses a single floppy disc drive - but the system knows to ask for the floppy disk to be exchanged halfway through the copy.
Since when? A disc copy has always been done with disccopy a: a:
Historically a: has been a 5,25" drive and b: a 3,5". Then the 5,25" died out and the 3,5" became a:, Then the 3,5" died out, too.
I'm obviously going way back - in my time we never had both kind of drives in a PC. i.e. 3.5 or 5.25
And the diskcopy A: A: would have failed since it would try to copy over itself - the safest way was always diskcopy A: B: (and as long as the B: never existed), Dos would come up with a message like (it has been a while) "Insert disk for drive B:"
These youngsters.. Youngster! Mee?  I can still remember the time when the only medium for saving data was a CR-30 audiocassette (slow so slow). Even though this memories become somewhat foggy. | | | It all seems so stupid, it makes me want to give up!
But why should I give up, when it all seems so stupid?
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| Registered: March 14, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 6,745 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting pauls42: Quote:
See here from that link: If no second drive is specified, the same drive will be used for both disks, and you will be prompted to switch diskettes. Place the source diskette in the drive first, issue the DISKCOPY command, and all the disk's contents will be copied into memory. You will then be prompted to insert the target diskette in the drive, and the contents held in memory will be copied to it. Ok, then it's only "disccopy a:" but not "disccopy a: b:" to copy a disc from a: to another disc in a: | | | Karsten
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,217 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting pauls42: Quote:
And the diskcopy A: A: would have failed since it would try to copy over itself Wrong system. DR-DOS could handle this. Would load the disk into RAM and then prompt for a disc change. cya, Mithi | | | | Mithi's little XSLT tinkering - the power of XML --- DVD-Profiler Mini-Wiki |
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | I can also confirm that diskcopy A: A: would work. |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting DJ Doena: Quote:
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See here
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If no second drive is specified, the same drive will be used for both disks, and you will be prompted to switch diskettes. Place the source diskette in the drive first, issue the DISKCOPY command, and all the disk's contents will be copied into memory. You will then be prompted to insert the target diskette in the drive, and the contents held in memory will be copied to it.
Ok, then it's only "disccopy a:" but not "disccopy a: b:" to copy a disc from a: to another disc in a: the 2nd link shows the diskcopy A: B: | | | | Paul |
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| Registered: March 13, 2007 | | Posts: 2,692 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting Forget_the_Rest: Quote:
I can also confirm that diskcopy A: A: would work. not with the dos versions which I ran..  | | | | Paul |
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| Registered: July 31, 2008 | | Reputation: | | Posts: 2,506 |
| | Posted: | | | | Quoting pauls42: Quote:
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I can also confirm that diskcopy A: A: would work.
not with the dos versions which I ran.. That could well be true. I remember it working with MSDOS 6.0 & 6.2. I did use other versions but can't remember which. |
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