CD-Rom data disks

[daden at rain.org]

Ventura County Library is the recipient of a number of Gates Grants. The
Gates Foundation recommended the purchase of Gateway computers which
would come configured with all the data disks from the CD programs
loaded directly onto the hard drive. This eliminated the need for staff
and customers to handle the CD data disks for each programs. Because we
elected not to purchase Gateway computers, I have been unable to get any
help in configuring our systems to find the data on the hard drive
rather than to go to the CD drive.
I created a separate partition on the hard drive and created files on
the separate partition that had the same name as the volume name of the
CD that was applicable to the program. Then I modified the target file
on the desktop shortcut to point to the corresponding directory on the
hard drive that contained the data and copied the executable file into
it. This was not successful. The program executable is still looking to
the CD Rom drive for the data.
Any suggestions?
Colleen White
Ventura County Library