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• 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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• Cannot change the drive letter. Obsolete disk management console.

  Original title:

  Help me please. I'm so sad

  my score is not see the...

  I have a problem, I ask you to solve

  

  I have suffered from an attempt to repeat to restore my driver context

  Please I want a solution to restore my files that were on this context

  

  and here

  

  What should I do

  I don't want to run out of data

  Please I want a solution

  big THX Microsoft

  Please take a look at the following links:

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/2001877

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/19472.Windows-Server-the-operation-failed-to-complete-because-the-disk-management-console-view-is-not-up-to-date.aspx

• 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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• 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

• How can I change the drive letter of the second disc of C: to another letter?

  original title: I add an opportunity second hard drive labeled C:. How can I change the drive letter of the second disc of C: to another letter?

  I'm runnibg Vista service pack 1 on a Compaq Presario with a labeled hard drive C:.

  No you haven't, how it was labeled in the old pc is irrelevant, just install you it as slave on your PC drive, depends on the question of if you need to change the jumper on the drive. Some PC manufacturers require the rider to be set as "cable select" others as "slave" (unless of course, it's a sata drive that requires no jumpers)

  Once it is set, when you start your PC, it will be assingned a drive letter

• Can I change the drive letter of the recovery partition?

  HP P7-1235, Win7 64 bit running. 1 TB HARD DRIVE

  I usually partition my hard drive, so that my data is separate from the operating system and applications.  the operating system is the C: partition, and my data is generally D:.  The problem is: "D:" is used by the recovery partition.

  I can change his letter to something else, and recovery still works?

  Hello

  Well, everything has been said on this subject and its okay.

  It's better to not touch the D: partition, set another letter to your other partiion, if you change the recovery partition, you won't be able to use it.

  But you can also do a thing, you can go ahead and create your copy of the recovery disks, just enter some DVD, create your copy of the recovery Image, then you can change the drive letter of the partition Recovery to E: or even delete that.

  A copy of records RRS, you can always use them to again state of the plant, and that will reformat all your partitions, create the recovery disks and do what you want and prefer with you D: partiion.

  Thank you

• Change the drive letter for the recovery partition

  The recovery partition is, by default, the value to D: which means that if I create a data partition, it is automatically in letters f: while this is not unacceptable, it is inconvenient.  I would like to change the drive letter of the partition data on D: and set the recovery as f partition: if I do this, it will automatically disable the ability to recover?  I am running Windows 7 Professional, which is an originally installed Windows 7 Home Premium upgrade.

  Hello Richard9, if you change the Recovery D: HP restore partition to another letter, the recovery procedure would not work if you ever need.

  If you have files HP Recovery discs, you could delete this partition and recover the capacity of hard drive D: and use the set of diskettes to restore HP recovery to reintall the original software and the partitions of the hard drive, all as they were when shipped from HP.

• Change the drive letter of the Partition Recovery

  After previous bad experiences in trying to separate the data files program, I took the habit on my previous computer under Windows to create another partition on my hard drive to store the data files. Out of habit I still do on my desktop PC with Windows XP (great program) rather than use the My Documents folder.

  I want to do the same thing on my new DV6-3142, I use to work and create a separate partition for my data files. I understand how to create a new partition on the HDD and reassign the drive letters for the existing partitions, but I want to use the letter D for her. However, it is the letter of the drive that is used for the recovery partition.

  Can I change the drive letter of the recovery partition to, say R without affecting the operation of the recovery process, or should I leave as D for the recovery of the system to work properly that I should never need her?

  Hello:

  You leave the name of the recovery partition and drive letter unchanged and your C drive: of the same name.

  If you change these, when you press the F11 key to start the recovery process, the program know what to do.

  I am a firm believer of it also have a set of factory recovery disks. For me, it is worth less than the investment of $20.  If your HARD drive fails after the warranty period, (or if you want to upgrade your HARD drive), your recovery partition doesn't help anyway.

  Contact HP customer support to see if they have a game for your laptop:

  http://support.HP.com/us-en/document/c00810334

  Paul

• 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

• Change the drive letter

  When you try to change a drive letter in disk management choice for other drive letters do not understand f, g, h and i - only beginning with L, how to change the drive letter to F, G, H, I?

  When you try to change a drive letter in disk management choice for other drive letters do not understand f, g, h and i - only beginning with L, how to change the drive letter to F, G, H, I?

  Check if f, g, h, I've already occupied by your existing drivers...

• 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:

  

• change the drive letter of a mapped network drive

  Hello

  You can change the drive letter of a mapped without logout and re-mapping network drive it with the desired drive letter?

  Hello

  You will need to UN-map and re - map (takes 20 sec.).

  Jack - Microsoft MVP, Windows networking. WWW.EZLAN.NET

• Is it possible to change the drive letter or to hide the partition System Reserved (D :)?

  I just bought a new computer with Windows 7 and there is a reserved partition mapped to D:, I prefer to use for the DVD player. Is it possible that I can out of this drive letter, or would have done so cause problems?

  Hello and welcome!

  As you can change the drive letter, I would recommend that you do not have. The system partition reserved y at - it crashes or recovery.

  Drive letter E is usually by default for CD-ROM.

• Can I change the drive letter of the partition BDEDrive on a computer using the BitLocker encryption without causing problems?

  The computer is running Windows 7 Enterprise and has a hard drive encrypted with BitLocker. Drive s. letter is assigned to the partition of BDEDrive I am currently installing an application on this PC which uses a drive mapping, and he refuses to use anything other than its default value (which is S). The best way I can resolve this would be to reallocate the BDEdrive a different drive letter re-use then S for the application mapping.

  Change the drive letter BDEDrive will break anything, specifically with Bitlocker?

  Hello

  Given that BDEDRIVE is used for deployment, and you try to map the drive. I would recommend posting your query in the TechNet Forums.

  TechNet Forum
  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/Windows/en-us/home?Forum=w7itprovirt

  Hope this information is useful.