drive letters

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Ronald E. Foltz

I know there's a way to change the drive letters but i forgot where to go to
do it. . .i have an extenal hard drive i wish to chang e the letter on. . ..
thanks in advance for any help
 
Generally you can't change the drive letter as this is given by the OS.
However, you could MAP the drive.

To assign a drive letter to a network computer or folder

1 Open My Computer.
2) On the Tools menu, click Map Network Drive.
3) In Drive, select a drive letter.
4) In Folder, type the server and share name of the computer or folder
you want.

Example:

\\servername\sharename.

-or-

Click Browse to find the computer or folder.

Notes

To open My Computer, click Start, and then click My Computer.
To reconnect to the mapped drive every time you log on, select the
Reconnect at logon check box.
Mapped drives are available only when the host computer is available.
Network drives are assigned letters from Z to A, and local drives (your
hard drive and removable storage devices) are assigned letters from A to
Z.
You can assign a computer or shared folder to a different drive letter
by disconnecting from the drive and then reassigning it to a new drive
letter.


hth
 
Click Start, Run (Type) DiskMgmt.Msc [Press Enter]
When the console opens, Right Click anywhere in the
Blue Bar that represents each partition, to get the context
menu and take "Change Driver Letter and Paths...."
 
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