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• Satellite P70-A01D: change the drive letters after the 2nd SSD upgrade

  I think it's a generic UEFI / Win 8.1 question (not according to model).

  However, FWIW, I have a Satellite P70-A01D (bought locally here in Australia).

  It is a victory of 16 GB 17.3 inch Gen4 i7 4700MQ Intel HM86 8.0 64-bit RAM.
  http://www.MyToshiba.com.au/products/computers/satellite/P70/psplpa-01d002/specifications

  I updated the OS to Win 8.1

  The P70 is supplied with a drive Bay HARD vacuum #2 - I bought a 250 GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD that I want to use as the main system disk / boot Win 8.1.

  I installed this SSD in bays #2 and from there I had no problem using the wizard of Samsun cloning software provided with the SSD (VCC 4.0) to clone my 1 TB on the SSD system.

  There are a lot of instructions from Samsun and around the web on how to clone and "substitute" of a HDD with a SSD - however there are much less when it comes to 'Add' the SSD - in the #2 Bay - while always keeping the original HDD fully functional as an additional drive.

  After execution of the cloning software, I tried just go into the settings of the UEFI on reboot and change the order of the boot drive placing the SSDS over HARD drive.

  It worked but there are obviously questions still as I had not renamed readers SSD worked as system but he was editing as D: and HARD drive was still C: and most of the system/application paths were always scheduled to access C:!

  It led to the crash and restart cycles of the Bureau (? & or explorer.exe?) and two consistent error messages:
  -"SkyDrive engine Sync host has stopped working".
  -"Host for the synchronization setting process has stopped working".

  I saw in the Control Panel-Administrative Tools-Computer Management-Online Storage-online-online right click on each drive disk management online online that I can access > however
  (a) I'm not sure if the solution I need is this simple;
  (b) nervous about change of letter on a disk while running the system; and
  (C) uncertain steps in order of evolution [IE. C: (non - sys) becomes M; D: (sys) becomes C:...

  At the moment via UEFI I'm back to working with the system on the HARD disk rather than on the SSD seems stable and without compromise of my screwing around!

  Apologies for the long post by train to make sure to include all relevant information. I think that my final goal is double win bootable 8.1 / Ubuntu 12.04 of the SSDS probably with Ubuntu on a 50 GB partition leaving 200 GB (enough?). I want to keep a slab of SSD space available for photo and video editing: +/-100 GB!

  I wondered simply assign new letters to readers, however the notes at the bottom of http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows7/change-add-or-remove-a-drive-letter state:

  You cannot change a drive letter if the drive is a system partition or a boot partition.

  Suggestions please?

  Hello

  I think you could try to change the letter to readers as suggested in the Microsoft article.
  Where this is not possible, try to use 3rd party such as GParted software.
  http://gparted.org/LiveUSB.php

  You could try changing the drive letters might start to the top of the unit using the live USB version.
  But it might be possible that your system would not initialize correctly after this change.

  So you should not forget to mark the partition as bootable.

  Your comments would be appreciated

• Change DVD drive letters in Windows 7.

  How can I change the letters for the readers of DVD in Windows 7?  I'm used to having them in D and E.  Be gone to Win 7 there is something to D, but I don't know what DVD players are K and L.  I was able to change the external drive letters, but I've not seen the equivalent.

  How can I change the letters for the readers of DVD in Windows 7?  I'm used to having them in D and E.  Be gone to Win 7 there is something to D, but I don't know what DVD players are K and L.  I was able to change the external drive letters, but I've not seen the equivalent.

  Go to Control Panel Setup, administrative tools, computer management, storage, disk management, click with the right button on the disks that you want to change, and then select 'change drive letter and paths '.

• J: present in DiskMgr - DiskMgr 'Change' NO drive letters

  Win 7 Hm Prem + HP (Pocket Drive) PD3200x (AU186AA #ABA) BkUp DRIVE w / HP SureStore App.

  SureStore App worm. 1.0.1.15 (08/04/2010) Dnloaded yesterday but NO HELP.

  My backup external (USB) drive HP has always attributed to J: When Inserted while the disc was removed a USB Verbatim was asigned [j] and I used safely remove Hdware instead of the V-Safe 100 Dbl Clking icon to remove it - I am wary that is why J: is MISSING when I try to rename the HP to D drive :. via CHANGE in diskmgmt.msc - J: appears everywhere where it should, EXCEPT when you try to use it in CHANGE DriveLetter.

  The HP SureStore App gives a pop up "Pls insert a disc j removable disk:" when I Clk the ShtCut tries to do a sync with C: and I don't know how to tell the App DON'T ask J: - GOLD - how temporarily name back to J: ""

  J: SHOWS in the list of DiskMgr w / device works correctly and - 0 - space used, unallocated, reserved BUT IF I Rt Clk J: in 'Computer' on the desktop and Clk EJECT it says d: is in use and to save files, etc. and Multi-EJECT - continue - fail to help.

  Dnloaded 08/04/10 last App Update SureStore and after only 3 installed tent it actually works – BUT - what i re-boot NOTHING LOADS and you have to NEW re - install in C: Sync (present) K: BkUp Drive. The SureStore APP is no longer installs a driver on startup, no doubt, he wants TO J: and does not work when it is not.

  Google is no help so far. -Would be System Restore or a Macrium full C Image B4 the Verbatim USB has been assigned j: be a last resort? Any thoughts appreciated!

  I got J: by removing the BkUp HP drive & go Device Mgr / drives and uninstall all USB Device members 5. Plugged in car and it was assigned (K). Changed the routine and (J) drive letter is now AVAILABLE again. I made the change to j.

  My biggest problem was not knowing that after 04/08/10 SureStore worm 1.0.1.15 App update install should I go to start / computer and made a shortcut to office for visible HPSureStore.exe.

  All worked so J: probbly could have still lost IF I knew how to set up the shortcut. I was going to Appdata and finding (3) SureStore.exe has nothing done.

  All right.  FOR INFO.

• Media Player Library question after the drive letters changed - Solution found

  I wanted to share a solution to a problem that I found and after searching on Google, I found no answer.  But after some perseverance I managed to fix it myself.

  I installed Win 7 & got to read all of my media files in WMP12, no problem.  However, I changed the drive letters on drives where my video, music and photo files were required, then lost all the details of the library.

  I thought I could rebuild the media player library by updating the files included in the relevant libraries, but it did not work.  I tried various other corrections posted (mainly by deleting all files in WMP library so he could rebuild), but without success.  What I found worked was:

  Close WMP and Media Center
  Remove all the libraries (music, pictures, video) file paths, so no files have been included.
  Run Regedit
  Search for all references to the old drive letter paths & modify registry data show new car path (for example, my music was on E:\My music, after assigning new drive letter, as it's on the music of H:\My, so I searched for all instances of music E:\My replace E) : by: :)
  Restarted
  A run WMP
  Added the new path of the folder in the library
  Hey presto, he began to rebuild the music library!

  Hope this helps someone else that I spent several hours of frustration of trying to understand this one!

  Thank you. A few trips to REGEDIT and I finally found him. There were two places «...» Of the Shell folders' and '... User Shell Folders ". After making sure that both had updated letters my multimedia files are fluid in. Thanks again!

• Portable HD drive letters

  How can I change the drive letters on my laptop HDs?

  Open disk management (Start > Search > diskmgmt.msc ), right-click the laptop HD and click on change the letter of pilot and paths . Boulder computer Maven
  Most Microsoft Valuable Professional

• Movement of originals of external drives.  Is it really necessary to "match" the drive letters?

  Win XP SP3. 2 GB; LR 2.3

  Main place of work is described above.  Laptop is Vista, 1.4 for the moment.

  I'll upgrade the laptop to 2.3 now and add the .lrcat (today) much more from the desktop

  to the laptop.  At the same time, we want to put all the originals on external drives and keep them there.

  It is absolutely necessary to change the drive letters (desktop is K, laptop is F) to the same letters?

  Or is there a way to deal with two different drive letters?  I am absolutely NOTHING of GOOD computer

  configuration and could spoil things.

  Yes, I know I asked something like this before, but I hope a different answer (she said,

  more in the hope of anticiptation...)

  Joia

  You can keep your .lrcat on an external with the images and be able to move it back and forth between computers. There are many other combos that also works, but maybe you could explain a little more how you use catalogs and images.

• 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:
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/change-add-or-remove-a-drive-letter
   
  Hope this information helps, just reply to the State of the question to get help.

• How or why my computer reassign letters of my dvd player and my external hard drive?

  I can't reconnect to the files in my photoshop elements program because the drive letters have been reassigned.  Any idea what caused this?  I did not notice when it happened, so don't remember is not the circumstances that may have it.

  Another device was probably used this drive letter when disconnected, you can change it back:
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/change-add-or-remove-a-drive-letter

  If another device is using the drive letter, first change this device.

• Change the drive letter of the system drive on Windows XP SP2

  Hello.

  There is a certain task I want to accomplish, but I can't figure out how. Here's the situation:

  I have 2 hard drives, each separated into 2 partitions. 1 disk partitions have the letters C: and G: assigned on them.

  The drive 2 partitions receive letters D: and J: . I have two installations of Windows XP, one on disk 1 (C: partition) and the other on disk 2 (D: partition).

  What I want to do is change the letter of the D: partition ( E: letter, even if it doesn't really) . As you probably know, Windows does not allow me to do that because D: is a system partition / boot. So, I was wondering if there is another way to achieve this, without risking damage to the system.
  

  I would be grateful for any help.

  You can correct me if I'm wrong, but I suspect it came because you installed to C on disk 1, and then, without disconnecting the drive 1, installed to D on disc 2.

  If you had unplugged disc 1 before installing the second XP on disc 2, the Windows partition on drive 2 would also named drive C. A clean re-installation of Windows on the drive with the drive disconnected 1 2 is the only way to remedy this I know.

  When you reconnect the disk 1, it will assign other letters for the partitions on disk 2 and vice versa. Having established the two XPs, I would recommend that you delete the drive letters for the other XP system using disk management.

  How do you dual-boot at the moment? By changing the BIOS hard drive boot order? Or by the manipulation of boot.ini file? EasyBCD should help with the latter, you can download the commercial version free from here...

  http://NeoSmart.NET/EasyBCD/

  Tricky

  EDIT: Why are you still on SP2? Follow my instructions here...

  http://answers.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/Forum/windows_xp-windows_update/Windows-XP-Service-Pack-3/26437969-e063-4605-9df7-f2dbf660993b

  .. .to get to SP3. Recommended to restore Internet Explorer all the way back to IE6 before installing SP3. BTW this site does not work with IE6, print everything before returning.

• Why two local drives appear on my PC if I have one?

  Why two local drives appear on my PC if I have one?

  It seems to be the partition of 100 MB of the system default, but she appears on 'My PC' or 'computer '...
  I leave it there or what should I do?
  Thanks to all for the replies! :)

  The 100 MB System Partition is created by Windows 7 during installation and it is usually hidden in almost all cases. What might have happened in your computer, it is that, somehow, a drive letter has been assigned to that partition, and this is why it is displayed in the window of your computer. You can delete the associated with the System Partition drive letter on your computer to make this new hidden partition. You must not remove or make changes within this partition, it will leave your computer in the absence of priming.

  To remove the drive letter of the System Partition:

  1. click on Start, type diskmgmt.msc in the search box and press ENTER to open the disk management window.
  2. right click on the partition system booked about 100 MB of size in question and then click change drive letters or paths.
  Note: Be careful here, do not make any changes to the drive letter assigned to the other partitions in the computer, which would be a disaster.
  3. then in the pop box - next up, Select the drive letter assigned to the partition, and then click Remove.
  4. There will be a couple of guests you say that if you remove the drive letter, some programs that rely on drive letter may stop working, you can safely accept these guests. Once you are done by clicking OK in these pop-ups, close all open windows and restart the computer.

  You shouldn't see that partition in the window of the computer now. It will be useful.

• 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.

• External drive letters do not mount properly.

  Hi all, here is one for you.

  I have Western Digital external storage drives, I plug it on and use that I need different things.

  One of these if my software (Memeo) backup on a 500G drive.

  I've marked these drives so I know which ones are connected.

  It seems that Memeo is stuck seeing the drive letter (H in order to run backups here.)

  It's ok, but for some reason when I connect this drive to backup on the machine, it is no longer happens as (H.)

  He always default (I have and I can't it will come up with (H.))

  I realize that this all depends on which order that plug you into the discs.

  Note: I have an another external WD 4 TB of video storage and I noticed that this seems to be required on the (H car (or so it seems) adjustment.)  Event with this player not connected not I can't get any player to come as (H, but as soon as I plug the video storage disk (H appears on the right.))

  My question: is there a way to 'flush' or 'clear' this setting to hold somewhere on it.  Or do you have other ideas?

  I'm under Win 8.1 on a HP Pavilion Notebook of Ent.

  Thanks in advance,

  Change/assign letters to drive manually using disk management. Or at least the video player. Plug it, go to the management of records, right click on the drive and select "change drive letter and path. Choose a path of letter Z same key string, maybe. If the backup drive is not given then H, repeat the process and give it the drive letter permanent h.

  Make Disk Management-press the Windows key and x. easily choose disk management from the list.

  http://www.PCWorld.com/article/2042380/how-to-change-drive-letters-even-when-the-letter-you-want-isn ' t - available.html

• How can I change the drive letter of the floppy drive?

  In the system properties Device Manager I want to change the settings of the floppydiskdrive (FDD). This is currently the station A:.
  I plugged in an external floppy drive and want this device as A: station.

  How can I change the current drive letter assignment?
  The reserved drive letters option is not available because the fields are gray.

  Steef

  Hello Steef

  As far as I know, it cannot be changed. Each internal floppy drive has A drive letter. Each external device becomes first available letter after later used in Windows Explorer in my computer.

  Good bye

• Static drive letters

  I'm under Arcserver UDP as my backup software. I have Windows Server R2 2012. I am trying to assign the same drive letter to two external drives, whereas when I'm running late at night, I won't be able to enter and change the drive letter that the software records the back up. I tried to go through the Disk Manager tool and it won't let me assign drive letters, but he won't let me assign the same drive letter to 2 different disks. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.

  Hello

  Post your question in the TechNet Server Forums, as your question kindly is beyond the scope of these Forums.

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/WindowsServer/en-us/home?category=WindowsServer

  See you soon.