Change the Local C drive letters

* Original title: assignment of drive letters

When I installed Windows 7 (home edition) earlier, I tried to assign the letter D for the reader, but the installation process would not allow this and kept failing the letter C. can I change this to D now?

The reason why I need to do this is that I have a program more former that works only under DOS and it will not run on any other drive except C.

I have a 'plug-in' (auxiliary) drive that is already formatted for FAT32 and I want to give this the letter C so that I can run my BACK from that program.

This sounds like a practical solution that can be made without too much trouble?

Hello

 
Thanks for posting your query in Microsoft Community.
 
From your problem description, I understand that you want to change the drive letter to D of C, so that you can run a program under the C drive with DOS operating system.
 
Unfortunately this action is not allowed because the current operating system, to which you have started is located on the Local C drive.
 
If you want to know the method of assignment or change the drive letter, I suggest you open disk management and assign the drive letter and check.
 
a. open computer management by clicking the Start button, click on the Control Panel, clicking system and security, clicking Administrative Tools, and then double-click computer management. If you are prompted for an administrator password or a confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
 
(b) in the left pane, click Disk Management.
 
c. If the hard drive is recognized in disk management and if there is no drive letter assigned, I suggest you do a right click on the drive and assign a drive letter and check if it helps.
 
d. click on the player to change and then click on change drive letter and paths.
 
Do one of the following:
 
· To assign a drive letter if it has not already received, click Add, click the letter you want to use, and then click OK.
 
· To change a drive letter, click on edit, click on assign the following drive letter, click the letter you want to use and then click OK.
 
· To remove a drive letter, click on remove and then click Yes to confirm that you want to remove.
 
Check this link for more information:
 
Hope this information helps, just reply to the State of the question to get help.

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