I have installed Windows XP Pro with no problems. But I have one perplexing event. Often when I want to play a game or sometimes just install software, the cd-rom is not recognized. This is because my dvd-rom; which is usually Drive D, is listed as being Drive E. As a result, many cds keep asking me to insert a cd into Drive D. But with this switch, Drive D is actually my cd-writer. Any ideas or work-arounds would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks for the help.

Hey Pat, this should be a quick fix for you but labor intensive. Go to your (system) through controll panel and find cd drive. Right click/Uninstall. re-boot and see if the drive letters change when Xp re-installs the hardware. If not you will have to manually take loose in the back the power cable, of the cd rom, the four wire power to your cd, AFTER SHUTDOWN AND UNPLUG and re- boot in Windows again. Let run for a few then SHUT DOWN AND REPLUG again. Then restart. This I hope will solve the problem.

I cant see a problem, I a game asks you to put a disk into CDRom d: then just put the disk into what ever d: is and in your case this i the cdrw. The only time I can see this being a problem is if the software is on dvd and it is asking you to put a disk into d: but this would normaly only occur if you installed it from dvd and added the cdrw which some how move the dvd to E: and put its self as d:.

If just putting the disk into the right drive letter will not work then goto the control panel, goto Administrative Tools, goto Computer Managment, and under Storage/ Disk Managment you will see all the drives that you have attached to you system. If you right click on the CDrom/DVD disks that you need to change the drive letter an option to Change Drive Letter and PATH will come up choose this option.
Select the drive you need to change letter for hit the change button then choose the letter that you want do this for both drives and that sort out the problem.

You might need to change d to f, then e to d and finally f to e. this is only if Xp will not let you change to a drive letter that is already in use.

good luck