Windows reassign drive letters

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Tweet Share Email. What to Know Open Disk Management. Locate the drive you want to change. Select the drive letter you want to assign from Assign the following drive letter. Then select OK and choose Yes. Was this page helpful? Thanks for letting us know! Email Address Sign up There was an error. Please try again. You're in!

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Join Discussion. Add your Comment. 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!

I purchased a 2. I suppose that could reformat the c drive, but this also contains two other partitions, EFI System Partition and Recovery partition. What do you suggest? I have an old computer with one hard drive named C. If I use the migration tool that came with the new computer it will transfer all the data to drive C, the GB drive and also the boot drive. I want to transfer the data to the D drive, but my old computer has only one drive called C, so I am assuming that it is also my boot drive.

If that be the case how could I transfer the data to my new machine? I originally thought I could change the drive and paths to D on the old computer and then migrate it to the D drive on the new computer.