Hello friends,Today i am gonna show you how to change drive letters in Windows 7
After a new hard drive installation or maybe just to keep your system organized, you may want to change the drive letter of a CD/DVD/BD drive or hard drive in Windows 7. The Disk Management tool makes this really easy.
Yes you can change your drive letters and get rid of usual C,D,E and F etc and show your friends that there are other letters in the alphabet and make your computer different but remember you should not change the drive letters of the drive where operating system is installed basically Drive C.Because all programs installed in this directory are assigned with drive letter C and the program will stop working if the path is invalid.So don't mess with your OS.
Ok ,now lets Start this
First Go to My Computer Icon and Right Click On it
You will see Manage ,click on it
Computer Management window will open up shown inthe picture below
Click on Storage And then Disk Management
Disk Management window will open
Now you will see a list of all the volumes on the Windows 7 computer and a break-down of the partitions by disk. For any removable media you may have attached like USB flash drives, you will see the word “Removable” under the name of the disk.
you will also see the partition of the hard disk with drive letter assigned to each of them with storage size and also free space left in each drive.
To change the drive letter, simply right-click on the partition and choose Change Drive Letter and Paths.
Then click on the Change button and then choose a new letter from the drop down menu.
Click ok and here we go
The above mentioned steps are easy to apply and just takes less than five minutes. Hope u like the tutorial.
But let me remind you that changing drive letters has also some disadvantage when it comes to system drive. avoid changing the drive letter of the drive where system files of the software installed because changing the drive letter od the drive where software files are installed makes them not working any more because the path has been changed.
Also avoid changing the drive letters of the drive where OS is installed
Quite simple,enjoy.
This method can also be used to change drive letters in windows Xp,Vista and Windows 8
if u have any doubt,feel free to comment
After a new hard drive installation or maybe just to keep your system organized, you may want to change the drive letter of a CD/DVD/BD drive or hard drive in Windows 7. The Disk Management tool makes this really easy.
You must be logged on as an administrator to perform these steps.
If you don't like the letter Windows has assigned to a new drive or you want to organize your drive letters in a certain way, you can change the drive letter.
Yes you can change your drive letters and get rid of usual C,D,E and F etc and show your friends that there are other letters in the alphabet and make your computer different but remember you should not change the drive letters of the drive where operating system is installed basically Drive C.Because all programs installed in this directory are assigned with drive letter C and the program will stop working if the path is invalid.So don't mess with your OS.
Ok ,now lets Start this
First Go to My Computer Icon and Right Click On it
You will see Manage ,click on it
Computer Management window will open up shown inthe picture below
Click on Storage And then Disk Management
Disk Management window will open
Now you will see a list of all the volumes on the Windows 7 computer and a break-down of the partitions by disk. For any removable media you may have attached like USB flash drives, you will see the word “Removable” under the name of the disk.
you will also see the partition of the hard disk with drive letter assigned to each of them with storage size and also free space left in each drive.
To change the drive letter, simply right-click on the partition and choose Change Drive Letter and Paths.
Then click on the Change button and then choose a new letter from the drop down menu.
Click ok and here we go
The above mentioned steps are easy to apply and just takes less than five minutes. Hope u like the tutorial.
But let me remind you that changing drive letters has also some disadvantage when it comes to system drive. avoid changing the drive letter of the drive where system files of the software installed because changing the drive letter od the drive where software files are installed makes them not working any more because the path has been changed.
Also avoid changing the drive letters of the drive where OS is installed
Quite simple,enjoy.
This method can also be used to change drive letters in windows Xp,Vista and Windows 8
if u have any doubt,feel free to comment
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