Comments on: Change all Drive Letters in Windows

By: DRS

DRS — Tue, 26 May 2009 21:47:03 +0000

This does nothing.

By: EF

EF — Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:11:23 +0000

I used to have an external drive under Z, and I no longer have the drive. But every time I try to install software, it often fails because it can’t find volume Z. If I delete \DosDevices\Z: will it hurt anything?

By: fastdump

fastdump — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 21:02:01 +0000

Martin – I don’t think so…

I don’t have a floppy drive installed so I can’t test. My CDR and DVDR drives both show up under Disk Management and I can change drive letters for them.

But the letters A and B are not available to select for any drive, so your method would be the go there.

I like to assign letters to my logical drives based on their content, so D is for [My} Documents; M is for Music; X is for… well – you can guess ;) and so on.

Never had a need for A or B, but if I do, now I know what to do – thanks! :)

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 11:19:52 +0000

fastdump is it possible to change the drive letter A: this way ?

By: fastdump

fastdump — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:20:38 +0000

In Windows XP you can go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management… select Storage > Disk Management… then right-click on the volume that you want and select ‘Change Drive Letter and Paths’ to change the assigned drive letter.

Also, if you choose to remove the drive letter altogether, you can then go back and assign/mount a logical drive to a specific NTFS-formatted empty folder (kinda like reassining the default folder for ‘My Documents’, but google this technique for more info and caveats before attempting!!!)…

Not sure if ‘Administrative Tools’ are only available in XP Professional but not XP Home.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 06:05:53 +0000

thanks netking :D

p.s. i had an instance where what was meant to be C:\ assigned itself G:\ during the install of XP. When i got into windows, i was able to revert to C:\ using the method you describe Martin.

By: netking

netking — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:07:54 +0000

For registry edition, I recommend Reghance, which is much more cool than the Windows Regedit.

You can get it here :
http://www.majorgeeks.com/RegHance_d468.html

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