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• When I replaced a hard drive, I wanted the same drive letter, but he wants me to take another. How can I assign the drive letter, I replaced?

  When I replaced a hard drive, I wanted the same drive letter, but he wants me to take another. How can I assign the drive letter, that I replaced. The letter is now used by another device?

  Open disk management, find the drive using the drive letter you want to use, change the drive letter of this to 'Z', find the new drive, change the drive letter that you want, and then change the drive letter of the drive you have labeled it 'Z' to a drive letter of your taste.

  Jim

• Secondary hard drive receives the drive letter assigned to the start-up

  I have recently formatted my secondary hard drive, which had been sitting in my empty PC and do nothing for a while, to function as a music folder. The problem I have is that every time you start that I have to manually assign the drive letter, Windows does not automatically. I tried to reformat the hard disk, but it does not solve the problem. In addition, by train to perform a bugcheck gives an error indicating the check cannot be completed. Personally, I have no idea how to solve this problem, and I have not found anyone with the same issue.

  Hi Revolvist,

  There is a possibility that the second hard disk is defective or damaged.

  If the second hard disk is a separate hard drive, I suggest you disconnect the drive from the computer (if possible) and connect to another computer and check if the problem persists.

  Install or remove a hard drive

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/install-or-remove-a-hard-disk-drive

  I hope this helps!

  Halima S - Microsoft technical support.

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• Assign a drive letter to a USB hard drive

  How can I assign a drive letter to a USB drive so that it is always the same whenever I plug it to make backups etc.?

  Thanks, Martin

  Plug in your device and wait for it to be recognized.  Open a command prompt (click the start ORB, then all programs, then Accessories, and then right-click the command prompt icon and select run as administrator). In the command prompt, type diskmgmt.msc, and then press ENTER.  Find your external drive in the list in the disk management window and right click and select "Change Drive Letter and paths", assign the drive letter, you always want to have.

  "MartinCC8" wrote in the new message: * e-mail address is removed from the privacy... *

  How can I assign a drive letter to a USB drive so that it is always the same whenever I plug it to make backups etc.?

  Thanks, Martin

• How to assign different drive letter in the new hard drive?

  My hard drive for OS window is broken, which is the C: drive, so I buy a new HARD drive, but my original D: drive become a C: drive and new HARD drive is assigned with drive E:, I can't restore my Ghost in new HARD drive image, because the image is restored in the C: drive only.

  Anyone have any suggestions on how to assign different drive letter under cmd?

  Thanks in advance for your suggestions

  Hi oem7110,

  Follow the steps in the article.

  How to change drive letter assignments in Windows XP

  How automatically assign a drive letter by using the Diskpart.exe command on a Windows Server 2003-based computer or on a Windows XP-based computer

• What could cause my computer to rendomly change the drive letter assigned to a mapped network drive?

  I use a Windows XP Pro SP3 System. We have dipped sharing network and one of them began to change the drive letter assigned periodically through the week that makes a problem in access to frequently used files. No reason as to why he would do this?

  Hi KyleMiller,

  ·         How you map the network drive?

  Try to re-mapping the network drive and check if it helps. Follow this link to do this.

  How to connect and disconnect a network drive in Windows XP

• How can I change the drive letter assigned to the partition of 'winretools' on a laptop Win 8?

  I'm just going through the process to customize a new Inspiron 14z with Windows 8. The only thing that left me speechless are all provided partitions installed on drive, thanks to a combination of everything be different on Win8, Dell make their own way and GPT formatting.  Generally, I would like to know what the devil all these partitions are for, but it is fine if it will be a slow learning process.  More precisely and immediately, I need to change the drive letter assigned to the partition of 'WINRETOOLS '.  Currently it is D:, and the problem is that 10 years from now, I'm using as my data partition D: and a number of applications, configurations, settings, etc. assume that all my files are on D:.  For example, by having all my music on D:, I can sync iTunes library and preference between machines and all results files and playlists is from a machine to another.  Same thing for my photos.  Same for a bunch of utilities like FTP consoles, sync utilities...

  In an earlier version of Windows, I would just go into management drives, right click on the partition in question, assign a different drive letter and work done.  On my machine, the WINRETOOL 2 GB partition shows not even as having a drive letter in disk management, despite the fact that it is D: in Win Explorer.  In addition, only the right click option is 'help '.  I took this option, and, despite its aspirations, it is not useful.

  How can I change this drive letter to something else?  WINRETOOLS should even have a drive letter in Explorer (some messages that I've seen indicates that it must be hidden)?  If I change the drive letter, which will break its function, whatever it is?

  ....

  My machine has a 500 GB of rotating disk that has all of the above partitions.  I shrunk the 80 GB C: partition, to create a data partition.  I've not yet formatted the unallocated space I want to solve this WINRETOOLS thing first.  Finally, there is a 32 GB of SSD that I put in place as a cache of the Intel Smart Response, and it is no longer visible to the operating system.

  At the command prompt, type the following and press "enter":

  mountvol D:\/d

  Close the command prompt.

  Drive D: letter should now be available and not used.

  Here's some info about Mountvol, it's very powerful to be safe to use it:

  

• Cannot assign a drive letter using the Vista Disk Manager.

  I read these latest solutions possible, but here's my problem.  I need to connect directly a 3.5 drive I pulled a SIN of hammer to my laptop running Windows Vista... because I need to recover a folder deleted this drive 3.5 with software that only works on the directly connected motors.  Software of network recovery might work, but it seems too expensive for just the recovery of this folder.  I connected the hard drive directly via the USB port.  The system tray sees the device, but the Explorer is and of disk management to assign a drive letter is greyed out.  Please help with assigning a drive letter.  There is only one user on the laptop which is also the administrator.  Thank you!

  In my view, that Hammer NAS units are based on Linux. Therefore, the drive is probably _not_ formatted with a filesystem Windows reads/writes. Making it very difficult to recover the folder removed since all things you could do to convert to NTFS, say, will also make little probable that you can recover deleted files. Eventually, you could use one of the Linux flavors running from a DVD, for example, Ubuntu and recover the file by using a Linux tool or set the drive on a Linux machine.

  Tom

• My lg800g phone shows connected to the computer but is not assigned a drive letter

  My lg800g phone shows connected to the computer but is not assigned a drive letter

  Hello

  You can manually assign the letter.

  Check out the link and check if that helps.

  Change, add, or remove a drive letter

  If you have any questions on Windows, feel free to let us know. We are happy to be of assistance.

• Every three months or more, the drive letter for the backup drives jumps from one to another

  I posted it here because there is no whole final forum for the Windows OS line.  It is a problem that has been around since Microsoft made Windows XP and, frankly, I'm tired of it.

  I have some backup players; one that I'm pretty much every day, whenever I have the machine and another every two weeks of use.  I make sure they are always attached to a specific USB port so that the computer does not change in response.  But still, every three months or so, the drive letter handling these jumps from one to the other.  I run a Web site today and use a p2p Manager to transfer files to my machine, but most of them depend on the drive, so I could really do without what is happening every three months... all because your company won't repair it or provide an intuitive, ToolPart beginners' of the Windows operating system, forcing to keep a disk permanently assigned to the same letter.

  I know that this is part of basic programming because it is something that Microsoft has simply been unwilling to identify and correct.  I know also there are millions of people like me who suffer from this problem.  For the love of God, please make this tool a priority for Windows 8 and build one for Windows 7/Vista!
  * original title - your drive letter management is (Windows, all versions) *.

  I don't think that the USB ports are wired so that the computer OS is informed of the port which has been consulted.

  I also doubt that you will get Microsoft to change at this point.  As a solution, I give my readers a volume name, and so I don't know which drive is no matter which drive letter that has.

  Steve

• How to change the drive letter with installed applications?

  My window is installed on the C: drive, and the application is installed on the D: drive,

  I just buy a new HARD drive and put it into drive E:, everything is copied from drive D: to E: drive and want to switch between the letter D: and E:.

  I tried to put in DISKPART, but when I restart my XP, the drive letter remains the same,

  If I change the drive letter directly in XP, it cannot be changed, because the applications are running.

  Does anyone have any suggestions?

  Thanks in advance for your suggestions

  Make sure any DVD/CD or USB keys are not connected or set F assignments or beyond (MY DVD is S & T).

  Shut down the computer; power off. Disconnect the old drive (now D). Connect the new drive (now a copy of the old D). Power and boot to the desktop. Go into disk management and make sure the drive that contains Windows, the original C drive is always c. assign the new drive as D. Reboot the desktop. Check operation.

  Shut down the computer; power off. Plug the old drive. Restart the desktop computer. Enter Disk Management and assign it to E.

  Restart, then check the operation.

  Tom Ferguson

• cannot change the drive letter of the external hard drive in XP

  I bought an Iomega 1 TB external hard drive and I can not change the drive letter.  I have a click right on my computer and select manage.  When I click on disk management, it does not recognize the outside.  The weird part is that it appears in my computer and I can access the drive without problem.  I disconnected the drive of my XP machine and connected to my Vista laptop and I was able to access it through the management of the disks without problem.  Iomega support claims that it is most likely a problem with my XP machine.  Any ideas how to solve this problem?

  Hello rolandboy,

  Thank you for visiting the Microsoft answers community.

  Try to use diskpart to complete the task.

  -Click Start > run > type diskpart and press enter
  -At the prompt, type list volume , press enter
  -At the prompt, type select volume 1 (where 1 is the number of the volume is the volume that you need to change the drive letter)
    -At the prompt, type assign letter = A (where A is the letter you want to assign your volume)

  Close your CMD, and you should be finished.

  Hope this helps Chris.H
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• You need to set the drive letter to the USB Ports front before any device has been inserted - that won't change when the device is connected. I have Windows XP Professional with Visual Studio 6 installed

  You need to set the drive letter to the USB Ports front before any device has been inserted - that won't change when the device is connected. I have Windows XP Professional with Visual Studio 6 installed. Thanks for your help

  diana73,

  First of all, make sure that you're connected Administrators account to do.

  How to change a drive letter to change an existing drive letter on a drive, on a partition, or a volume, follow these steps:

  1. Sign in as an administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
  2. Click Start , click run and type compmgmt.msc .
  3. In the left pane, and then click disk management .
  4. Right click on the drive, the partition, the logical drive or volume that you want to assign a drive letter to and then click change drive letter and paths .
  5. Click change .
  6. Click assign the following drive letter if it is not already selected, click the drive letter that you want to use, and then click OK .
  7. Click Yes when you are prompted to confirm the drive letter change.

  The letter of the drive, partition, or volume that you specified is changed, and the new drive letter is displayed in the appropriate drive, partition, or volume in the disk management tool.

  Good luck! Please rate me upward if you find my post helpful. Thank you!

• Change the drive letter of recovery drive (vista home 64)

  I can change it from d to z: I need d: for another purpose.

  Thank you

  Peter

  PeterK514,

  It is safe to change the drive letter as long as no other program or service is dependent on growing location. The recovery discs, usually access you their data outside of the windows environment and the recovery console (by pressing a button of keyboard during startup), and so it would be prudent change the assigned letter. However if your recovery for you program manufacturer, or any other software that relies on this drive, run from Vista, it can interfere with its ability to operate properly. Consult your OEM for more details on their dependencies of the program.

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• Change the drive letter when connecting via USB?

  When I plugged my DroidX (via USB) to my box "XP home", I don't have my 2 USB powered external drive enclosures. Thusly, Motohelper installed and configured itself, but took possession of the letters 'F' and 'G' driver previously used by my two external in the process.

  I need to get those back from some apps are looking for files in these places and I would rather not start reconfiguring all my apps on my XP machine.

  I looked in disk management, but don't see not all references to F or G, a frontend for the Motorola drivers for this problem.

  Someone knows a way to recover my drive letters and to reconfigure the drive letters of Motorola to my taste? (System Restore is out...)

  How to change a drive letter

  To change an existing drive letter on a drive, on a partition, or a volume, follow these steps:

  1. Sign in as an administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
  2. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click performance and Maintenance.
  3. Click Administrative Tools, double-click computer management, and then click disk management in the left pane.
  4. Right click on the drive, the partition, the logical drive or volume that you want to assign a drive letter to and then click change drive letter and paths.
  5. Click change.
  6. Click assign the following drive letter if it is not already selected, click the drive letter that you want to use, and then click OK.
  7. Click Yes when you are prompted to confirm the drive letter change.

  The letter of the drive, partition, or volume that you specified is changed, and the new drive letter is displayed in the appropriate drive, partition, or volume in the disk management tool.

  How to remove a drive letter

  To remove an existing drive letter on a drive, on a partition, or a volume, follow these steps:

  1. Sign in as an administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
  2. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click performance and Maintenance.
  3. Click Administrative Tools, double-click computer management, and then click disk management in the left pane.
  4. Right click on the drive, the partition, the logical drive or volume that you want to assign a drive letter to and then click change drive letter and paths.
  5. Click Remove.
  6. Click Yes when you are prompted to confirm the deletion.

  The drive letter is removed the disk, the partition or volume that you specified.