How do I change drive letters?

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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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Re: How do I change drive letters? by Bruce

Bruce
Mon Sep 01 09:05:07 PDT 2008

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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RE: How do I change drive letters? by eckrichco

eckrichco
Mon Sep 01 13:05:01 PDT 2008

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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Re: How do I change drive letters? by John

John
Mon Sep 01 14:56:08 PDT 2008

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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