How to Change Drive Letter in Windows Vista?
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Partitioning in Windows Vista got a lot easier as they had the inbuilt Disk Management utility which allows to Extend and Shrink drives to create new drives or partition it. We had already seen on the earlier tutorial how to partition in windows Vista? But sometimes after partitioning it, you may want to change the Drive Letter.
So how to change the drive letter in Windows Vista?
Go to Start Menu -> Control Panel -> System and Maintenance -> Administrative Tools -> Double Click Computer Management -> Storage -> Disk Management.
Right click the Drive you want to change its letter and choose Change Drive Letter and Paths.
Choose the drive and click Change.
From the drop down menu near Assign the following drive letter, choose the letter you want to assign. Click OK.
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Which means that you do exactly what you did in Windows XP
Thanks for the tip!
Good tip…I usually have to do this when I plug in a USB stick and the next drive letter after the CD rom drive is already being used!
It’s the same as in Windows XP.
It is a bad idea to change the drive letters of permanent partitions especially C:
@Ajay, I agree and I would not recommend anyone to change C drive. One of the LyteByte reader asked for this tip on another post so I wrote it.
It’s the same as it was in Windows 2000, even.
It will not allow you to, unless you dual boot to another os, in which case c: should still be you system part, prompting additional resistance to the change on windows part.
Bottomline, idiot warning is built into windows and isn’t required here.
Now, how to force a change when windows has f’ed up on it’s own and changed from c: to x: is a whole other matter. Windows is a bit too idiot proof in this situation and relegated to the long standing MS band-aid solution of a dirty install, in which case you still may not be able to correctly changed back to c:, ending up permanently ‘half-fixed’ on x: or some other random number cause it was stored for you somewhere.
Back to the google board….
My new computer just changed my external hard drive from k drive to g drive. My itunes is set up for k drive, so i need to change it back. The problem is when i go to change the letter in the pop down menu, k drive is missing, yet nothing else is assigned to it.
Any ideas?
thanks a lot, this really helped!
Can anyone help me> I have no internal Floppy Drive as i have always used a USB floppy drive for the few times I have needed one. I am trying to update my Mobo drivers and to do so i have to create a bootable floppy. My usb floppy drive shows up as Drive I so when i try to create the bootable disk it automatically goes for Drive A, which doesnt exit. I disabled the Drive A “ghost” floppy but when I try to create the bootable it says,”Cant find Drive A”.
I used the typical method listed above to make the usb floppy drive which is visible in the Device Manaager and works just fine) Drive A, but the usb drive doent show up in the drive list so i cant change the drive letter. ANY help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks in advance for any help!!