Comments on: How to Change Drive Letter in Windows Vista?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:49:48 +0000

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!!

By: m

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 10:18:16 +0000

thanks a lot, this really helped!

By: Andy

Andy — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 22:42:48 +0000

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?

By: Ajay, have you tried changing c?

Ajay, have you tried changing c? — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:25:29 +0000

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….

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:03:53 +0000

It’s the same as it was in Windows 2000, even.

By: Mr.Byte

Mr.Byte — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:25:21 +0000

@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.

By: Ajay

Ajay — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:22:35 +0000

It’s the same as in Windows XP.

It is a bad idea to change the drive letters of permanent partitions especially C:

By: Aseem Kishore

Aseem Kishore — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 20:46:41 +0000

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!

By: Haris

Haris — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:30:57 +0000

Thanks for the tip!

By: Dr. Suhas Rao

Dr. Suhas Rao — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:39:47 +0000

Which means that you do exactly what you did in Windows XP