| Changing Drive Letters
Ever wished you could change your drive letters? Here's
how you can do it :-
- In the Control Panel, select Administrative Tools.
- The Administrative Tools folder will pop up.
- In
that folder, select Computer Management.
- Naturally, that brings up the Computer Management screen.
Click on Disk Management and wait till the Logical Disk
Manager Service finish scanning your system's drives. You will
then see a list of the drives available in your system.
- Now, click on the drive with the drive letter you want to
change.
- Then, right click and select the Change
Drive Letter and Path... option. The example shown below
would be my 50X ASUS CD-ROM (drive letter G). I will be
changing its present drive letter of G to the drive letter D.
- Yet another screen pops up. All drive letters linked to that
drive will be listed on that screen. Now, click on the drive
letter you want to change and click on Edit....
- The fourth pop-up screen now appears (Phew! There are
certainly many pop-ups!). Click on the drive letter and a
whole list of available drive letter choices will now appear.
Select the drive letter you want for this drive. Click OK
and voila!, your drive will have a new drive letter!
Notes
- You will not be able to change the drive letter of
your system or boot volume. However, the drive letters of all
other drives and drive volumes are changeable.
- If you want to change the drive letter of a CD/DVD-ROM or ZIP
drive, make sure you insert a disk first. The drive letter
cannot be changed unless there's a disk in the drive.
- Some
software may not work properly if you change any drive
letter. So, you may need to do some registry editing to get those
software to work with the new drive letter. If that doesn't work,
you will have to reinstall the software using the new drive letter
or reset the drive letter back to its original drive letter.
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Thanks for your time and I hope this tip has helped you some! :)
Adrian Wong
Adrian's Rojak Pot
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