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• 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

• 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

• Is it possible to change a drive letter of the system?

  Hello

  I have XP Pro SP3.

  I am interested if it is possible to change a drive letter of the system. My windows was originally installed on c:, but then I found that it is on d:. Maybe it was because I inserted a disc with another Windows in my pc. So, if the computer sees it has letter c: with windows he used d:. I put t know. But 98.5 percent of register use c:. But when I run my computer, then "documents and settings" on d: to run all my accounts on d:. I would like to go back to c: and (change the drive letter c: to something different and then change the d: to c :). I would change a few c: registry values. But how can I do when Windows has probably read files on the wrong drive? If I would disconnect the disk if the Windows will crash. So I want to just change the letters and give it back to its original position.

  This problem that I solved with the backup of the machine. A problem occurs when I restore it back. But this facility has been unlucky.

• 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

• 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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• 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 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...

• 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.

• 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

• Cannot change the drive letter - Vista

  I'm changing the drive letter for a USB external hard drive.  I go to disk management and right click on the external drive and select change drive letter and paths.  I chose my new drive letter - click Yes to the warning - and that she fails.  Dialog box is titled - logical disk manager and the error message is: the parameter is incorrect.

  Help, please.
  Details:
  Windows Vista Edition Home Premium SP1
  Seagate 2.5 "laptop hard drive - USB
  also tried with Maxtor external hard drive 3.5 "

  Hello

  I have two laptops running Vista. On each of them, I have an external USB or SATA drive that I use as a backup partition.
  I have my own backup utility, and I like to use the letter B for the backup.

  When I change sometimes the discs I've met this parameter is incorrect problem on two computers - sometimes I can change using the method above and sometimes I can't.  I tried to stop the disk cache, anti-virus etc etc etc. with totally inconsistent results so far as I can tell.

  Today I tried to boot mode safe mode (F8 at startup) and tried the same steps as before and it worked on the first attempt.

  Maybe it's worth a try.

  Doug

• 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.