Guest Moonbarker Osbourne Posted September 1, 2008 Posted September 1, 2008 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 Posted September 1, 2008 Posted September 1, 2008 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.) -- Bruce Chambers Help us help you: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375 They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers. ~ Denis Diderot
Guest Andrew E. Posted September 1, 2008 Posted September 1, 2008 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) Posted September 1, 2008 Posted September 1, 2008 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?
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