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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! Thanks for signing up. There was an error. Tell us why! More from Lifewire.
How to Format a Hard Drive in Windows. How to Change Folder Icons in Windows How to Delete a Windows Recovery Partition. Your Privacy Rights. Instead of the drive letter given by Windows, you may alter it to any other accessible drive letter.
You can alter the drive letter assigned by Windows. In the case you alter a drive's drive letter, the registry saves it per drive and volume ID. This does not permanently assign a drive letter to the device. The drive letter on your PC may change if you unplug the device or if you alter it. If you use many USB drives, you may have observed that the drive letter changes each time you attach one. When non-assigned drives are attached, the letters D and onwards are assigned in turn.
If the assigned drive is not attached, Windows will assign its drive letter to another drive. If you connect the drive with the given drive letter later, it will be assigned the next available letter. Windows gives you several options for changing the drive letter of your computer. With this guide, you'll learn how to assign drive letters using three different tools. The Disk Management utility that comes with Windows lets you manage your disks.
Change drive letters, create new partitions, delete existing partitions, and more. Step 1. You will need to open Disk Management with administrator privileges. Right-click on the Start button, then choose Disk Management. Step 2. In the Disk Management window, right-click the volume you want to change or add a drive letter.
Then click "Change Drive Letter and Paths". Step 3. Pick "Change" to alter the drive letter. Or pick "Add" to add a drive letter for drives without one. Step 4. Choose a new drive letter, click "OK". The Disk Management will warn you that some programs might not run properly. Just close the window by clicking "Yes" to confirm. Your team is working on a project and you need to copy some files to a USB drive.
But you have no idea what is the drive letter of the USB of your team. Open Disk Management with administrator permissions. To do so, select and hold or right-click the Start button, and then select Disk Management. In Disk Management, select and hold or right-click the volume for which you want to change or add a drive letter, and then select Change Drive Letter and Paths. If you don't see the Change Drive Letter and Paths option or it's grayed out, it's possible the volume isn't ready to receive a drive letter, which can be the case if the drive is unallocated and needs to be initialized.
Or, maybe it's not meant to be accessed, which is the case of EFI system partitions and recovery partitions. If you've confirmed that you have a formatted volume with a drive letter that you can access and you still can't change it, unfortunately this topic probably can't help you, so we suggest contacting Microsoft or the manufacturer of your PC for more help. To change the drive letter, select Change.
To add a drive letter if the drive doesn't already have one, select Add. Select the new drive letter, select OK , and then select Yes when prompted about how programs that rely on the drive letter might not run correctly.
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