How do I change drive letters?

[Guest Moonbarker Osbourne]

This mornin', I made a mistake that caused my system to see my usual USB

connected external hard drive as the same letter as when I have my camera's

SD card plugged into my printer.

 

I've already gone through the pain in the tail of chagin' ev'rything so that

all my programs look for "G" instead of "F" when they look for somethin' on

the external HD.

 

For future reference, if the external drive letter gets changed by my system

again, how do I change it back to what I want it to be?

[Guest Bruce Chambers]

Re: How do I change drive letters?

 

Moonbarker Osbourne wrote:

> This mornin', I made a mistake that caused my system to see my usual USB

> connected external hard drive as the same letter as when I have my camera's

> SD card plugged into my printer.

>

> I've already gone through the pain in the tail of chagin' ev'rything so that

> all my programs look for "G" instead of "F" when they look for somethin' on

> the external HD.

>

> For future reference, if the external drive letter gets changed by my system

> again, how do I change it back to what I want it to be?

 

 

Right-click My Computer > Manage > Disk Management > right-click

the desired drive/partition > Change Drive letter and paths.... (You

cannot re-assign a drive letter that is already in use.)

 

 

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[Guest Andrew E.]

RE: How do I change drive letters?

 

If the letter youd like to set to a device is already asigned to one (wrong

letter),

then 1st,you must uninstall or disable the device the letter its on

now,device

mgr.Once thru disabling in device reboot pc,in xp,run,type:diskmgmt.msc

In msc,L.click the device,options,change letter/path,the letter is now

available.

 

"Moonbarker Osbourne" wrote:

> This mornin', I made a mistake that caused my system to see my usual USB

> connected external hard drive as the same letter as when I have my camera's

> SD card plugged into my printer.

>

> I've already gone through the pain in the tail of chagin' ev'rything so that

> all my programs look for "G" instead of "F" when they look for somethin' on

> the external HD.

>

> For future reference, if the external drive letter gets changed by my system

> again, how do I change it back to what I want it to be?

[Guest John John (MVP)]

Re: How do I change drive letters?

 

No you don't, you simply have to release the letter by assigning a

different letter to the device, unless of course the device it the boot

volume, you can't change the boot volume's drive letter.

 

John

 

Andrew E. wrote:

> If the letter youd like to set to a device is already asigned to one (wrong

> letter),

> then 1st,you must uninstall or disable the device the letter its on

> now,device

> mgr.Once thru disabling in device reboot pc,in xp,run,type:diskmgmt.msc

> In msc,L.click the device,options,change letter/path,the letter is now

> available.

>

> "Moonbarker Osbourne" wrote:

>

>

>>This mornin', I made a mistake that caused my system to see my usual USB

>>connected external hard drive as the same letter as when I have my camera's

>>SD card plugged into my printer.

>>

>>I've already gone through the pain in the tail of chagin' ev'rything so that

>>all my programs look for "G" instead of "F" when they look for somethin' on

>>the external HD.

>>

>>For future reference, if the external drive letter gets changed by my system

>>again, how do I change it back to what I want it to be?