external hard drive swapped drive letters....

[Guest]

i have an external hd. i've had it for a week or so. all works fine. when i
first hooked it up it showed as local disk (F. i moved my pc today and when
i started it the ehd now shows as local disc (G. it works fine, but all my
music is there and when i try to play it in musicmatch or wmp i get a broken
link message because i imported it all from the hd when it was (F instead
of (G. i tried it hooked to all the usb ports and get the same. how did
this happen and how can i get it back to (F ? thanks.

raymond

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

i have an external hd. i've had it for a week or so. all works fine. when i
first hooked it up it showed as local disk (F. i moved my pc today and
when
i started it the ehd now shows as local disc (G. it works fine, but all
my
music is there and when i try to play it in musicmatch or wmp i get a
broken
link message because i imported it all from the hd when it was (F
instead
of (G. i tried it hooked to all the usb ports and get the same. how did
this happen and how can i get it back to (F ? thanks.

raymond

Click Start / Run / diskmgmt.msc, then right-click drive G: and
change it back to F:.

 

[M.I.5¾]

Click Start / Run / diskmgmt.msc, then right-click drive G: and
change it back to F:.

Or for less fiddly way to get to the disk manager, right click on 'My
Computer' and select 'Manage'. Select the drive manager from the screen
that appears. Then right click on the drive you wish to change the letter
of and select a new one.

 

[Paul Randall]

Or for less fiddly way to get to the disk manager, right click on 'My
Computer' and select 'Manage'. Select the drive manager from the screen
that appears. Then right click on the drive you wish to change the letter
of and select a new one.

It is likely that the operating system has assigned F: to some other device,
like a slot for a memory card. If something else is assigned the letter F,
use the instructions give by others to change that device's letter to some
letter not currently used. Then you can change this drive's letter to F.

-Paul Randall