Drive letter change problems

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• SanDisk Ultra Drive Letter missing problem

  Did a search but don't seem to find something that fits to my problem. I have several Sandisk Ultra USB flash drives, for most versions of 16 GB with a 32 GB version and for some strange reason, whenever I have insert in a Windows computer (Windows 7 and Windows 10) they fail to come up with a drive letter. Instead, I have to go to computer management > disk management > change drive letter and paths and assign a (usually E) drive letter to the Ultra drive to be install in Windows every time.

  I have many other readers flash including Sandisk Cruzers who do not exhibit this problem. There is always a drive letter assigned whenever they are inserted into a Windows computer.

  Is there a cause for this problem?

  Is there one alternative to having to assign a drive letter to each time I insert the Ultra flash player?

  Ed_P wrote:

  Assignment of the different drive letters to each different drive, IE the more different 16 GB for the 32 GB ones, should help. I have some of my own assigned to S: and T: to deviate the other random readers.

  Thanks for the suggestion. Tried that on the Ultra drive (five of them) and it did not work. Each of them has been assigned their own drive letter but would not come up with a drive letter, so that other readers not Ultra would rise with the drive letters.

  What seemed to have worked was to access the 'diskpart' execute the command, and then run the following command: automount enable

  Then when the Ultra drives were inserted, they came up with a drive letter from the first drive letter not in use on the system.

  Explanation of the Automount command: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753703(v=ws.11).aspx

• Drive letter change!

  My external drive letter has changed apart and now all saved it is not found by the command 'open '. How do I chang it back?

  To change the drive letter:

  1. Press the Windows key + R .
  2. Type diskmgmt.msc in the box, and then click OK .
  3. In the disk management window, click on the external drive, then click on paths and change the drive letter .
  4. Follow the prompts.

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• Drive letter designation problem.

  MS supports and myself work in seeing why I have Vista SP1 install problems.  I just (yesterday) to install a new copy of Vista on my HD with all the upgrades installed except for SP1 and SP2.  I intend to install so that I can get IE9.  Well, MS and I ran into a slight impasse and will pick up again tomorrow with a conference call.

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  Question: My C drive is correct regarding the description and the drive letter.  Can I be assured that if I managed to say loading SP1 and SP2 and finally IE9, C only would be affected.  I don't want to touch other players given their problem of letter of designation.

  Question: I recently downloaded WLM only against MS.  I noticed that the appearance of it is a little different from the WLM that comes as part of Windows Live Essentials package.  Everyone has noticed that, and what did you decide to use?

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  This article explains how to troubleshoot problems when you install a service pack for Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008.

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• 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).

  

  

• My local disk drive letter changed from C to D after the installation of Windows XP.

  Help to install window Vista! PLEASE, I BEG YOU! Help!

  Hello!

  For some reason any Local disk under C and D after that I installed Window XP.

  I tried and tried to go back to C but I can't because he has this partition called reserved system, which is 100 MB and this partition has C

  But when I open the window Vista * this is not a CD is an ISO * it happens like that

  "The system (c) partition has insufficient free space. Windows installation needs at least 392 megabytes (MB) of space on this partition. "To install Windows, enough free space and restart the installation.

  Its evil!

  I don't know why its saying C

  My D drive * how window 7 was a c drive * had over 500 GB of free space

  My C drive * which is the reserved system * has about 62 MB on it?

  How can I install Windows vista! I NEED THE ANSWER OF TOMORROW!

  Hello

  Try to change the name of the partition through BACK:

  http://www.ehow.com/how_5969792_change-letters-outside-Windows-XP.html

  www.YouTube.com/watch?v=wmdFejeMyr8

  Hope it works.

  Thank you

  Nitin Aswani

• 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.

• 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:
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/what-are-system-boot-partitions#1TC=Windows-7

  However, you can create another partition to save your data and files.
  Reference:
  Create and format a hard disk partition
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/create-format-hard-disk-partition#create-format-hard-disk-partition=Windows-7

  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

• 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 impact of drive letter

  Hello

  I'm Win 7 Pro x 64.

  I have a need to share an application between colleague who has data on an external hard drive.

  Initial challenge was to ensure that the external hard drive appeared as the same drive on machines different configurations.

  Experimented with the function "Change drive letter" in the management of the computer in the Administratyive tools for the control panel.

  In my case I changed the drive F: (USB port) drive W:.

  It seemed to work except that I know have a 'new' drive F: which is presented as system reserved.

  A reboot doesn't change anything.

  Guess my question is should I this extra drive under the drive letter changing?

  As a matter of interest, the new F: is shown as having 70.0 MB free of 99.9 MB - where are only physically affected data?

  If this is not the case, how to remove it as I would like my USB to back to F: drive as I have other apps referencing this disc - OK I could change the Botr prefer to put things to how they were.

  Thank you in advance.

  You should always have a reserved system drive, which is there for purposes of recovery.  There normally do not however have a drive letter.  I would just remove the letter F: (but do not remove the drive) and ignore it.

• How do you assign a drive letter

  Original title: device how to assign a drive letter and or put the drive to statius online or mount a big drive to a literate player that is visible

  I have 13 terra of large drives hard and other flash drives, cards readesrs in sys I added a 3 disc terra 2ned which is not visible for terra 16 connected but its not addressable says its offline, but it is connected and 'work prpoerly' how can the system put in place to see the added disk and use the space?  a smaller drive can be removed and replaced?  or this one mounted on a different drive letter

  ?

  The provided Windows tool is disk management in the applet of the Control Panel administrative tools. Click Start-> Control Panel-> administrative tools-> management-> disk management computer.  Then locate the drive in question.  Right-click, and then click paths of access with the drive letter Change.

  If this does not work, you can try it free Easeus Partition Manager that you can download at http://easeys, com.  I got lucky with this program and Windows 7.

  I hope this helps.  Good luck.

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• 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.

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