Drive letter automatically gets changed
Hello I have an another ignorant newbie question since I've never done this before action. I just installed a new 2nd HD and an another current in addition to my main HD SSD. When I select 'Computer', the main HD is always labeled 'C', and the other installed drives are assigned several letters for purposes of recognition (D, E, F, K, etc.). I cloned two new disks. When I start the computer and select 'F12' to check my current boot drive option and then make a change to one of the secondary drives to become the startup disk, when I select 'Computer' even once, all readers appear except that they have now turned autour drive letters. Any player is automatically selected as boot drive becomes drive 'C' and others also have their drive letters changed. I was wondering if it's a normal thing. Doesn't bother me because I can still access everything's fine, it just seems odd. Thank you Discussions were merged. Deleted duplicate. Hi Isabelle,. Please keep us updated on the status of the issue. I suggest you follow the steps mentioned below to assign, change or remove the drive letter using command line: 1. in the command prompt window, type DISKPART , and then press enter. 2. tap the volume from the list and press enter. 3 volumes or partitions on your system will be displayed with a volume number, letter, label, file system, type, size, and status. If you have only one partition on your hard drive, the volume represents the entire hard disk. Note the number of the simple volume that you want to assign, change, or remove the drive letter. 4. type 'select volume ' followed of the volume number you want to assign, change, or delete. For example, if the disc is "Volume 3" in the disk list, type "select volume 3", and then press ENTER. DiskPart responds with 'Volume # is now the selected Volume.' 5. at the DISKPART prompt, type one of the following: Remove letter = L Where L is the drive letter you want to delete. assign letter = L Where L is the drive letter you want to assign or change. For example: If you want to delete the D drive letter, type Remove letter = D and press enter. If you want to assign the drive letter E, type assign letter = E and press enter. See link: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc757491(v=ws.10).aspx #BKMK_CMD Hope the helps of information. Please reply with the results, in order to help you solve the problem. Thank you Tags: Windows Try to change the drive letter, but get the error "the parameter is incorrect." I am trying to upgrade my PC to run Windows 7 64 - bit on a new Intel Solid State Drive (SSD). I install Windows 7 from scratch on the new SSD (which uses the drive letter J) have just completed and changed the drive letter of my original system from C to M. My intention was to reuse the drive letter C to the SSD, but the Win 7 disk management tool will not allow the use of C. "All I get is a' setting is incorrect" error message. My first thought was to check the location of the Windows page file. It was indeed using drive J, so I put the pagefile on the D drive instead and restarted my PC. However, this has not fixed the problem. I always get "the parameter is incorrect" when I try to use the letter C. What else could be the cause of this problem? David I tried a change of the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices registry but it is just screwed to the top of the new installation of Windows on the SSD (it starts in a unusable mode "is not a real installation"). I was not too concerned by what I had already made my decision to reinstall Windows 7 after making changes in bios to disable all disks except the SSD and force a boot from the installation of Win 7 DVD. This relocation is now complete and the new partition on the SSD system has the C drive letter. A reboot with the other shows, active records that the original disc of BONE has been reassigned to the next available drive letter. My problem is thus solved. If it was the only way to do so is now a moot point. David Made Windows my F: drive letter, can you change it? Recently, I upgraded my hard drive and installed XP Professional. The hard drive is labeled F: is there away from changing it? It is my system disk. Recently, I upgraded my hard drive and installed XP Professional. The hard drive is labeled F: is there away from changing it? It is my system disk. There is a method to change the drive letter. However, I only recommend it if you are comfortable editing the registry. This is not a difficult process, if you are careful to follow the directions. The method on the link in the answer above does not apply to records that contains system volumes. Change the drive letter using this method will make windows no longer starts. http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/223188 If you are not familiar with alter the registry simply re-install windows, this time making sure that you have unplugged all devices other than the cd rom, keyboard, and mouse. This includes printers or other devices, media card readers. I do not vote for me I'm not here for points. If this post helps you, vote. Visit my forum @ http://repairbotsonline.com/ 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...) To change an existing drive letter on a drive, on a partition, or a volume, follow these steps: 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. To remove an existing drive letter on a drive, on a partition, or a volume, follow these steps: The drive letter is removed the disk, the partition or volume that you specified. Cannot change the C: drive letter to D: Hello I got an answer to a previous question about changing the drive hence my stuff is download for C: to D: drive and I did what was listed and restarted my computer, but he remained always the C drive, please ask some ways for me to change my drive C: to D: Thank you SapphireGamerX Hello Paula,. I would like to know some information about the problem so that we can help you better. Did you receive an error message when the C: drive letter change? Thank you for details on the issue. Unfortunately, drive letter cannot be changed for the C: drive as it acts as a boot partition. Some programs make reference to specific drive letters. If you change a drive letter, it could be that these programs do not work correctly. Windows 7 can help to back up the system partition by preventing reformatting or deletion of it, and if the system partition is distinct from a (as recommended) boot partition, it will not automatically assigned a drive letter. For reference: However, you can create another partition to save your data and files. Note: Formatting a volume will destroy all data on the partition. Be sure to back up any data you want to save before you begin. I hope this information helps. Please let us know if you need more help. Thank you How to make a portable USB drive use the same drive letter all the time Original title:
I have many removable hard drives from Toshiba. Use them for photography. I usually connect simply, transfer photos from the DSLR camera (images raw, very big, not a camera point/rod). When I plug in, computer automatically selects a player... F, g, H: by M or N. Then, I use Adobe Lightroom for adjustments. Once they are imported into Lightroom it keeps track of this record, they were on. PROBLEM: If I unplug the removable hard drive, plug in at a later date, computer can randomly choose a different example M instead of H letter. Question: Plug in a hard drive removable, computer selects H:, can I import into LightRoom, I disconnect the removable hard drive, a week later I want to make adjustments more photography, connect the removable hard drive and FORCE/DIRECT COMPUTER TO SELECT H: AGAIN (or whatever of the original letter was). Hope it makes sense. Jim Hello There is a way to assign a static drive on an external USB drive letter, so you always get the same drive letter for the drive. Click on the following link and follow the steps to change a drive letter. Change, add, or remove a drive letter http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/change-add-or-remove-a-drive-letter I hope this helps. Cannot assign drive letter on USB key I use Windows 7 ultimate 64-bit. A new problem is to occur. Whenever I have plug in a USB key and try to assign a drive letter, I get the error "the disk management console view is not updated." I tried to refresh the view without success. I also uninstalled and reinstalled the USB drivers without success. Anyone have any additional suggestions? Thank you. Have a look here, it can be useful. http://laptop-driver.blogspot.com/2010/12/disk-management-console-view-is-not-up.html External drive has a different drive letter now, he does not see Lightroom Catalog. The problem started when I plugged an additional external USB key. The drive that I use for my photos was labeled F:, now G: is labeled, even after you remove the extra disc of installation. The catalog in LIghtroom is still pointing on F:, which currently doesn't "exist". The physical drive is fine - Windows Explorer sees all files. I see two approaches to solve this, neither one of which I know how to do: (1) reallocate the letter F; at the promenade repoint (2) catalogue to G:. Any contribution welcome! Thank you Chris Those are the two choices. To change the drive letter, go to Google and type in change the Windows drive letter To change if Lightroom finds the photos, see Adobe Lightroom - find folders and files moved or missing Why-letter from external drives gets changed in windows 7 Hi all Can someone please advise, why the external drive letters gets changed even after changing disk management in windows 7. He worked for two days and turns again. In Windows, each external storage device is assigned a unique ID (UID). That UID and the corresponding parameters are stored in the registry. The seetings include the drive letter assigned as well. If one of the drive letter is assigned to tell the reader, manually, after unplugging it, the same drive letter assigned to the drive B, the letter for the drive B. For example, if A player is connected again, a new letter is assigned automatically. You may notice that the drive letter for drive B cannot be used as drive B is disconnected, and yet the settings in the registry makes Windows assign a new drive letter to a drive, like the manually assinged drive letter B is allocated for drive B and the next time you connect player B the same drive letter is assigned, according to the registry settings. Get the iPhone to recognize the change to iTunes Library the drive letter I'm doing something that should be extremely simple, and Apple has found a way to make it incredibly difficult. I'm moving my media to a new computer. On my old computer, all the media has been on the J: drive. On my new computer, it's all about the D: drive. Other than that, the folder structure is exactly the same. Apple says that in documentation for migrating to a new computer, activate the option "Keep iTunes folder organized Media". There are several reasons why this is not an option, mainly because iTunes is the absolute worst to organize your media folder. I've seen cases where iTunes dumps simply all your files perfectly organized in a single folder for you to figure out what that is when you get the file you need. No thanks, I'm perfectly capable of organizing my own files. Not to mention, my multimedia files are on a data disc and the app folder, where the files to iTunes library is on an SSD with limited storage. Then... Guard iTunes library trace the location of support using a "iTunes Music Library.xml" file. I've updated this file to use the new location and when I open iTunes on my new computer, everything is perfect. All my media is there with all my custom illustrations I apply (iTunes can also be really terrible at the corresponding work on music not purchased via iTunes!). If great, let's get my iPhone recognized now because it's really the only reason why I use iTunes. As soon as I connect my phone and it starts the synchronization process, it crushes everything in the XML file and returns all my music in the original location (now the music in the iTunes library has!'s next to all my music sync). You're going to go to a song and it will ask you the new location, I can go to, and then iTunes invites even to use this new location to update other files 'disappeared', but the problem is this feature only searches the subfolder where the particular file is located, you have access to what is in this case an album. Do you know how many albums I have? You mean I have to go to every single album and update the location manually? Once again, no thanks! So my thought at this point, ok, let's just resync all the music with the phone, that well that is always a huge pain given the extremely slow transfer speeds from your computer to your phone (Apple Hi, meet 3.1 USB or same USB 3.0) in combination with the size of my library (we're talking days to complete!), it's even less of a pain then go each file (or a piece of each album) and updated the location. On a side note - it would be really great if the synchronization on the Wi - Fi technology still works... I mean, they had what, over 4 years to operate and you're still lucky if your phone is recognized by Wi - Fi. That means I have to leave my phone on my computer for days and who really has the ability to do? Sorry, I digress. So, I removed all of my music from my phone and got iTunes to be happy with the new drive letter. Great, let's start the arduous process to sync my music on my phone. I re - activate the option synchronize my music and what happens, my iPhone again overwrites my iTunes library with the former location of media! Excuse me, but how is it reasonable to have the phone, which is a destination and contains a subset of your library, to be the registration system for which the files are stored in the source? I mean come on! This is absurd! I've always hated that Apple is owner and forces you to use iTunes (some of the worst software ever developed) to manage/sync your media. But for years, I have it justified by saying iPhone works simply. No worries. Well, I'll say, it does not just work and my insinuation that Apple made simple products that just don't work no longer holds water. At this point, I am very close to say goodbye to the iPhone and switch to Google project. I'm tired of less expensive phones friends surpassing my overpriced device that uses obsolete technology. Sort of, I'm sorry to dump all this on the community, but it is absolutely ridiculous that it's so complicated to change a drive letter and I am at my wits end. Thanks in advance to anyone who can offer a solution. I'm doing something that should be extremely simple, and Apple has found a way to make it incredibly difficult. If you was to move your iTunes LibrRy to another drive, follow these instructions: How to move your iTunes library to a new computer - Apple Support If you have already moved successfully, just launch iTunes while holding down the button Optio/alternate, then choose the location of the library. < published by host > How can I get Lightroom to find photos on a USB key when the drive letter changes? This is probably a simple question, but I keep getting stuck. I have ha ve my catalog and some pictures on my laptop hard drive, but most are on an external USB drive. Sometoimes the car is affected E:, F.; or G: and when it cahnges, the catalog says the photos are missing. How can I get Lightroom for photos? Tom Barnwell The quick solution is to click on the folder that contains the missing files and choose "update folder location" and then search for the file on the USB drive. The longer term and fix, you must apply is to configure Windows to always give the same drive letter USB. You can do this through the XP disk management application in the management of the computer (the control panel applet). The following screenshot is for XP and Vista and Win 7 will be something similar which is accessed via the administrative tools (see second screenshot). 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. How to solve my problem to change my USB drive letter Hey guys,. I needed to change my drive letter of the USB on a windows 7 when I press start and right click on computer then press on handle is to get a message saying "Windows cannot find"C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Program\Administrative Tools\Computer Management.Ink". Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try to gain. " I need to do it quickly because I need my USB to be mounted to a different name on my desk so it can work at school and at home, please someone help me Inder- * Proposed by the moderator for hardware & drivers. Reason: Add clarity.* *. Create a shortcut on your desktop using this command line: diskmgmt.msc Windows7 - error msgs & MGP works does not properly after changing drive letter I am running Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit. When first, I partitioned my HARD drive, the 2nd logical drive was labeled J:, who was the next available letter after all the optical drives and integrated flash memory readers. I prefer to label it D: (to follow immediately from the boot partition which is C :). I used the functionality of disk management to change the drive letter of the J: to D: (and of course move the rest optical drives and integrated flash memory ready in 1 letter). When I run some programs, I get this error message: "There is no disk in the drive. Insert a disc into drive \Device\Harddisk4\DR4. Options click below this message are "Cancel", "Try again" or "continue". Some programs, such as Google Chrome, Microsoft Works word processor and spreadsheet, clicking on one of the 3 options will allow the program to operate normally. For other programs, such as Windows Live Movie Maker, clicking options will cause a "Drive not ready" message and lead to more problems. For example, I can not load my existing projects, because I can't get to the screen that allows me to navigate through drives and folders to choose my file. I uninstalled and reinstalled the Movie Maker, but the problem is still there. Seems to me that it is not the individual programs that are at the origin of the problem, but something in Windows 7 itself. How can I get rid of the error messages and get the programs to run normally? Do I have to edit the registry of Windows 7? If so, what will exactly be changed? Thanks in advance. Think I found the answer. Looks like it is a problem of registry after all. That's what I did: (1) go to the start menu. (2) execute Regedit by typing "regedit" in the search box and press
(3) the search for "J:" in the whole registry. (4) when a directory path is starting by 'J' and the pursuit of my familiar subfolder names, I should now start with "D:" instead, I right click on it, choose "Edit" and change the "J" to "D". (Note: I only change to directory paths that looked familiar to me and I'm sure that should now start with "D:".) I change all instances of "J:" that were found). (5) once this is over, choose 'File', then 'leave '. A ran programs that have already given the error message. No error message comes this time. Restarted the PC and programs run. Once again, no error message. I hope that things stay effortless. Question catalog: changed drive letter Hi all I just install a new SSD on my desktop and install new operating systems. All this has caused some of the drive letters (I have a bit more disks), to change. I copied my catalog to a new location and tried to load it into Lightroom and... obviously it does not find the pictures. The only change was just the hard drive. Is it possible to update the catalog to pick up everything that on another drive? Or I will have to work something around and get this drive received the letter from the former? The OS is Windows 7 btw. Thank you. I assume you have two choices... My macbook air 13 "(2015) is very slow, even after a clean install" Hello I have a macbook air 13 "from 2015 and it is VERY slow. I did a clean install from scratch of El Capitan (10.11.06) and always very slow. Etrecheck give ' "Performance: poor"» Is there a hardware problem? or what to do? Thank you EtreCheck vers bookmarked site Web fireox yesterday began leading me to the web pages bad Years I have been on a daily basis without going through my connection opening page and goes directly to my e-mail and using bookmarks page to access some Web sites. All of a sudden yesterday I connect whenever I opened and a bookmark to ancestry/com images and background colors either not displayed at all or only sometimes For example, http://www.bpwcal.org looks fine in Explorer but in Firefox 3.6.10 the background color and/or image does not load. I did not have this problem in previous versions of Firefox. How download IOS9.2 now, I phone 5 Children have their own computer and I that they would play on it that the laptop that I already have the game on. I need the laptop for work.Similar Questions
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