Renaming drives

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Let me start by stating that I am using Windows XP Pro SP2. All of my drives
had specific letter designations, which several of my programs were linked
to. I made a mistake and did not have all my drives connected when I added a
new external device and it assumed one of my other drives names. In short,
how do I rename my drives so they are back to where they were? I tried a
right click on the drive and went to "rename", but it wouldn't let me change
the letter designation.
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Try the following:
Right click My Computer,
select Manage,
select Disk Management,
Open to full screen so you can see all the drives,
Highlite the drive you want to change,
Under Action, All Tasks, you can change the drive letters.
Be aware that you can only change the drive letter to an unused letter, so
you may have to experiment a little bit.
 
Rich said:
You could try removing the External Drive and start over.
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You might want to consider putting the cd drives at the end. I have an
external dvd writer and two internal, assigned x,y,z.
Do simila for things like flash drives so you always get same letter.
Back in dos days doing this would have incurred a penalty, but not to
worry with xp.
Dave Cohen
 
intlpostman said:
Let me start by stating that I am using Windows XP Pro SP2. All of my drives
had specific letter designations, which several of my programs were linked
to. I made a mistake and did not have all my drives connected when I added a
new external device and it assumed one of my other drives names. In short,
how do I rename my drives so they are back to where they were? I tried a
right click on the drive and went to "rename", but it wouldn't let me change
the letter designation.
Click to expand...


Right-click My Computer > Manage > Disk Management > right-click
the desired drive/partition > Change Drive letter and paths....

You cannot re-assign a drive letter that is already in use, so
relabel the DVD drive as F: or higher first, then relabel your 2nd hard
disk as D:. You can then relabel the DVD drive as E:, if desired.

Personally, I always assign my CD/DVD drives letters far enough
down the alphabet to keep them from interfering with the lettering of my
often changing hard drive partitions. For instances, I usually label
CD/DVD-ROM drives as R: (for Read-Only), CDR/CDRWs as W: (for Writable),
and Zip drives as Z: (for the obvious). This lettering system is, of
course, not necessary; it's purely a matter of personal preference.


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