How To Change, Assign And Remove Drive Letters

	How To Change, Assign And Remove Drive Letters
	Discussion by soleimanian with 15 Replies. Last Update: January 31, 2011, 3:26 am

soleimanian

How to change, assign and remove drive letters on computers running Windows XP or Windows 2000
Note: you can’t change the drive letter of your OS
Run Disk Management, for this:
Click Control Panel > Click Performance and Maintenance > click Administrative Tools > Computer Management > and in left panel click Disk Management
Or right click on My Computer and select Manage and then select Disk Management.

In right panel right click your drive and select “Change Drive Letter and Path”.
To change: in dialog box click change and finally change the letters assigned to your drive.
To add: click add and browse for drive path
To remove: click remove, windows will display a warning message, click ok to continue.

Fri Aug 5, 2005 Reply New Discussion

spacewaste

Good little info.

Following similar steps is also pretty useful for doing things like adding drives letters onto your My Computer from your network

Sat Aug 6, 2005 Reply New Discussion

Xcl

Yes! You are my savior! I have been waiting 4 months to put in my new drive, and you are basically the last puzzle piece. Great tutorial.

Sat Aug 6, 2005 Reply New Discussion

computerjoe

Computer managemnt is also useful for creating NTFS and FAT32 partitions. Better and easier than PM8 for that!

Mon Aug 15, 2005 Reply New Discussion

andrwxsCOL

You can do it, even any partition program, like Partition magic, this programs is so usefull at the time to work with hard disk, even the most easy things, like formatting or changin letter, use them they are more powerfull that the ""toys"" that brings Microsoft

Mon Aug 22, 2005 Reply New Discussion

(G)Levi Cole

hi.

I want to remove a drive, so I selected the drive I want to remove and then right clicked and selected "Change Drive Letter and Path" then I clicked remove, and it came up with this error:"Windows cannont remove the drive letter of your system volume or boot volume."

-reply by Levi Cole

Wed May 20, 2009 Reply New Discussion

(G)J Bachez

Thanks for your help!How To Change, Assign And Remove Drive Letters

I was unable to open my external hard drive to view my files and I was very frustrated, as soon as I found your instructions on how to assign a new path or letter to my external hard drive my problem was gone...Thanks so much...

-feedback by J Bachez

Fri Oct 2, 2009 Reply New Discussion

(G)Trevor

change/ find drive lettersHow To Change, Assign And Remove Drive Letters

My system ONLY shows drive F: in the management panel. My machine has two hard drives with the primary Master as C: the primary slave partitioned as D: an E: the DVD drive as F: then the USB drive as H: It is the USB drive I need to re-letter as G: which is how the network recognizes it. My main question is why are none of my hard drives or USB drives shown on the management list?

-question by Trevor

Thu Oct 1, 2009 Reply New Discussion

(G)Surendra

How to assign same drive letter for two hard disk in systemHow To Change, Assign And Remove Drive LettersI have two hard disk of about 600gb each in my system,I am saving all my data in a single drive through my software,is there any way to assign single drive letter for both hard disk-question by Surendra

Sat Oct 24, 2009 Reply New Discussion

(G)Karthik

Thank youHow To Change, Assign And Remove Drive Letters

Thank you for the post. Works for Windows 7 too!

-reply by Karthik

Mon Dec 28, 2009 Reply New Discussion

(G)Arnold

Thanks but...How To Change, Assign And Remove Drive Letters

This answer works, but only when directly connected to sata.

I have a USB-sata thingy (em-1015) and this seems to be the first thing that does NOT work well under Win7.

The thing is I have a popcorn hour A-110 and this uses the linux format, the 1.5TB drive is dying on me (2nd one in 7months) so I wish to retrieve all the data thats on it. Win7+ext2 or 3 don't work as well as with the winXP did. The newly formated 1,5T under winXP did need this answer to get seen by win7

I tried this answer with aid of my USB thingy but that makes my Win7 crash, it sees the usb em1015 and even the drive thats connected to that but when I try to activate it... It crashes. When the drive is directly on sata is does work.

had to open the defective drive with a bootCD of Kubunto to access the data and copy it to the new drive... Then placed it back in winXP and it worked fine... Then back to Win7 and it was gone again.

This answer here solved it again. (big sigh)

-reply by Arnold

Sat Dec 12, 2009 Reply New Discussion

(G)Rizwan K

Assign drive letters to partitions in Windows 7, with errorHow To Change, Assign And Remove Drive Letters

HELP!

(I'm using Windows 7)

I have an external hard drive with 4 partitions. When I plug it in the USB port, on my <Computer> only detects the first partition.

I looked up some forums and suggested the steps in Computer Management, but when I try to assign letter and path, the below error pops up:

" The operation failed to complete because the Disk Management console view is not up-to-date. Refresh the view by using the refresh task. If the problem persists close the Disk Management console, then restart Disk Management or restart the computer "

of course, <Refresh> or <Restart> doesn't work

It's so frustrating! Please help, very much appreciated, thank you!

-reply by Rizwan K

Tue Jan 12, 2010 Reply New Discussion

(G)nfrye

How to remove a driveHow To Change, Assign And Remove Drive Letters

Replying to (G)Levi ColeI have a Drive E that has shown up in My Computer. I do not know how it got there and I do not have a Drive E. I did notice one thing that when I tried to download Accuweather Desktop I got a message that said Drive E is not accessible. I want to remove this drive but do not know how to do it. I have tried everthing going thru Disk Mgmt. Etc. The icon in My computer shows a red question mark in front of the drive E icon. Hope someone can help me get rid of this mysterious drive.

-question by nfrye

Tue Jan 26, 2010 Reply New Discussion

(G)besthdd

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If the hard drive has bad sectors, sometimes running the check disk tool will correct this. To find this tool in Windows XP, goTo My Computer, right click on Drive C, choose Properties, click the tab called Tools, and then click "check now." In the window that pops up,Make sure that both boxes are checked and then click okay. A disk checkWill be scheduled for the next time that the computer is turned on.

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Sun Aug 1, 2010 Reply New Discussion

(G)George

Menu item is dead. Then what?How To Change, Assign And Remove Drive Letters

After major stuff (reinstalled XP with the stupid recovery of HP etc. In the process it had to take away my D: that was my data partition, because the recovery partition has to be D by default. That left my Data partition without a drive letter.

Every site tells the same story, but when I right click my change letter and path or whatever is greyed out. Only delete and help are alive.

???

-reply by George

Sun Mar 20, 2011 Reply New Discussion