Reassigning drive letters windows xp

Thanks for the info! Dunno why. It irritated me to know end. I have an external drive which I back up to daily came to back up files and 2 things, the drive id has changed to F: and it states its full and do I want to format it…obviousley NO.

I thought if I renamed it to its previous drive letter in this case G:it would recognise the path and my files would be there, wrong so I have a drive that has heaps of data on it yet it shows it as full disc with no bytes and I cant read it.

I tried reassignment but only got letters to change that are after the two that are missing. I tried your method but it wont let me change to E or F as those letters seem to be missing.

Any clues? Also I cant find updated drivers for n. I bought a new Toshiba notebook, in order to run some of the old software.. I had to partition the HDD with a D: drive.. I lost my E: drive?? I mean removed the whole partition.. My problems that I posted on March 21, seem to have finally resolved themselves. Must have been corrected in a Microsoft update or something. I found this article ages ago and it was very useful at the time but I never commented. This page did :o. Pls suggest me proper steps for same..

Is it the case?? Your directions to change drive letters is very easy to carry out. I am not sure wether to follow what you say or wether I would have problems I have sbsribed to your site and am waiting for the email Thanks for a very good site…Brian.

Does not work in my case. I have G: drive and want to change it to D:, it does change my letter but after the boot the paths are the same linked to G so all my programs installed on G: are unaccesible. I installed a new c drive but it came up as H How can i get it to C? I unhooked My card reader and my burner rebooted still comes up as H. What can I do? I wiped my hard drive to re-install windows XP. This is my 1st time installing windows. I have multiple drives mapped, and it looks like I accidentally remapped the e: my CD drive to a file server.

I need the drive to stay the same letter for Picasa. Thanks for this helpful article. Thank you Leo. You have saved me so much fruitless messing around on my machine to keep my portable hard drive with F assigned.

Thank you, your advice was absolutely spot on. My computer detects the dvd and the cd as different units, and they are the same. One as F and the other as Z but i need to use z as a network connection. The problem is that i can only see the dvd drive in disk management so i can only change the F.

How can i change the letter of the Z cd drive? Hey, I already passed the point where I can stop. Brilliant straight forward answer. Saved hours of frustration trying to reset drive letters. Thanks Leo. Thanks so much, Leo. Great tutorial! PS: I always read through my recipes before starting to make sure I have everything I need. Sorry Cyberpilot. I hope nothing drastic happened. With UNIX you just connect the disk and mount it on the right place. With Windows you will have to connect the disk and then change the configuration of the software to use the new path which may or may not be a hassle.

If the software does not care about what physical drive it uses then it should not have to specify it either. And most software does not care. The drive letter system is clunky and should be abstracted away IMO. At some point in your article, you mentioned to click on Removing the drive letter and thereafter to right-click on the same partition without a drive letter now in order to change and assign a new drive letter.

I have done it a lot of times in the way I just described without any problem. Thanks a lot, Leo!. You know, nowadays, I am very curious about everything that has to do with procedures and new knowledge in computing.

I am trying to absorb as much as I can, for I know one day it would be worth the effort. That was the only reason for my question. Is there any way, having once assigned a persistent letter to a drive, to unassign it and get Windows to go back to assigning a temporary available letter instead? How do I do this?

Do I have to reformat the drive? I bought a new Asus Laptop with Windows 10 installed. Switched it on and before it had completed updating windows 10 I got a message to say that it could not finish the updates as there was not sufficient Disk space on the internal 30Gb HDD! It may not display this or other websites correctly.

You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. XP won't assign a drive letter. Thread starter Chase32 Start date Feb 18, Status Not open for further replies. It is jumpered properly as a slave and is recognized by the BIOS. It does not appear in My Computer, however, it is listed in Device Manager.

I've tried removing it from Device Manager and reinstalling it with no success. Does anyone have any ideas? I played around with Microsoft's diskpart. Thanks for any advice! You know, I was thinking, maybe using diskpart will do something different.

It might also help us get some more info about you have been looking at. So type in the command to fire up diskpart - you'll be taken to the diskpart command shell. At the shell, type: list volume list disk - Copy and paste the results in this thread Is your USB drive listed anywhere in there?

It should show up under the volume list for sure. Using the volume number, issue the command select volume - ' ' should be your USB drive's volume number. This should bring your USB volume into focus so any commands you type will apply to that volume only.

Click to expand Still not showing Rick, thanks for the reply. The drive I'm having problems with is not a USB drive, it's an internal HD, so some of the things didn't apply in that link, but I downloaded a third party disk manager Drive Manager 3. I did some reading on diskpart. There's no volume for it, so I can't assign it a letter without that, I guess. I did make sure 'D:' was available by changing my Zip drive to G: In drivepart.

Under disk management, do you get an option to "Initialize" the disk? Normally when you add a foreign disk you must initialize the disk through disk management before you can use it, but seeing as though your disk says Active or Healthy, I think we have a problem No, no option to Initialize. The only thing that isn't grayed out when it is Right Clicked in Disk Management is "Delete Partition" which obviously isn't a great choice.

I tried disconnecting it, booting without it, then rebooting with it to see if any Initialize came up then, but it didn't. You could try and set the jumpers to cable select instead of slave, but im not sure it will help. There are a few posts within this forum along the lines of the problem you have, but no real concrete fix. Im sure that if you go ahead and delete the partition, the format to follow will allow you to select a drive letter for it, but you will lose your data.

Have you tried it on another PC? Redo the system, XP not seeing the drive order. I would either replace that 37GB it could be causing your problem with the system. Only takes one HDD to knock out the others. Rick said:. Initializing a disk destroys the data on it, so this is definitely not an option.

Zephyr ,. Log in or Sign up to hide this advert. Thanks, worked like a charm. Just a hint. If you have more than one optical drive, and have trouble keeping them sorted by drive letter, give them a letter that makes sense.

My CD is R for Reader. That way, when I pop in a CD, I know what drive I put it in, and what drive to expect Explorer to find it for browsing etc. Show Ignored Content.