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Comment from Mike on 2009-11-13

2009-11-14T00:43:17Z

Thanks, this works on Windows 7.

Very easy to do. Who knew.

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Comment from gt morgan on 2009-08-04

2009-08-05T03:30:50Z

i ve a mini laptop wit 2gb HDD.I CANT RUN ALL OTHERAPPLICATIONS COS THE HDD SPACE IS SMALL.I TRIED AN OS ON AN ETERNAL HARDRIVE.AFTER FORMATING AND COPYING OF FILES N BOOTING TO INSTALL THE WINDOWS ITS SHOWING ME A BLUE SCREEN .CAN GO FUTHER THAN DAT.WHAT MUST I DO

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Comment from user on 2009-01-27

2009-01-27T11:37:59Z

Does not work in my case. I have G: drive and want to change it to D:, it does change my letter but after the boot the paths are the same linked to G so all my programs installed on G: are unaccesible.

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Comment from Brian Clark on 2009-01-11

2009-01-11T22:06:12Z

Your directions to change drive letters is very easy to carry out. I have a problem because my
D: drive is shown as (Z)(D) I would like to get rid of the (Z). I am not sure wether to follow what you say or wether I would have problems
I have sbsribed to your site and am waiting for the email Thanks for a very good site...Brian

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Comment from alex on 2008-12-24

2008-12-25T05:55:19Z

hi leo, i have recently been attacted by a worm called 'silly dc'it changes the drive paths of the c and d drives i think i have cleaned it all up, but i am still getting a reference to ' resycled\boot' as the path for the c and d drive how do i change that??? thanks in advance
Alex
ps im using xp pro with service pack 1

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Comment from Rajesh on 2008-12-03

2008-12-04T05:25:14Z

Hi.. I want to install Windows XP on my 80GB external HardDisk..Pls suggest me proper steps for same..also I came to know that even if I do it, the OS when booted frm HDD will be very slow..as it will use processor from PC!! Is it the case ??

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Comment from Eddi Lowe on 2008-11-27

2008-11-27T15:17:01Z

I found this article ages ago and it was very useful at the time but I never commented. I've searched for the page again because I had a friend with the same issue I had originally and this page easily explained how to change the drive letter with screen shots etc which is really helpful.

Originally I'd been trying to access some files on my USB memory stick and it wouldn't show up in "my computer" so I searched for why this would happen and because I already had a mapped network drive with the same letter I now know that it will only recognise one drive with that letter at a time... the page in question (no idea what page it was specifically) said change the drive letter assigned to it but didn't tell me how. This page did :o)

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Comment from Sheri Zampelli on 2008-10-07

2008-10-07T15:58:10Z

This is just what I needed to know. Thank you.

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Comment from Bill on 2008-09-30

2008-09-30T19:27:52Z

Thanks! This help tool came in VERY handy!

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Comment from David Clark on 2008-08-11

2008-08-11T14:39:59Z

What a brill web site. After days of worrying your answers solved my problem in minutes.

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Comment from mathew davies on 2008-07-31

2008-08-01T05:59:29Z

hi i have an ifriends computer and i just installed a super multi dvd rewriter but now its sayin cd drive file system unknown and i have zero bytes on my drive d im not to good with computers so im kind of stuck is there something i have dones wrong please help if u can thanks!!

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Comment from ninekiller on 2008-03-16

2008-03-16T20:48:30Z

ok i got a dell 1100 inspiron won't read dvd/cd rom i tryed updating driver, roll back,and last but not least changing the drive letter. i was thinking unstilling the software and redownloading from dell s website u got any other methods i could try???

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Comment from Josh Campbell on 2008-01-02

2008-01-03T00:46:21Z

Thankyou very much, that's exactly what i needed to do.

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Comment from James on 2007-12-27

2007-12-27T10:54:15Z

Many thank, you have been a great help. Pesky computers!!!

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Comment from Vinnie on 2007-12-19

2007-12-20T05:00:56Z

Good Job worked great.

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Comment from Jerry McCormick on 2007-12-11

2007-12-11T21:49:45Z

Wrong date for previous posting. I typed March 17th where I should have said "posted on March 21, 2007"

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Comment from Jerry McCormick on 2007-12-11

2007-12-11T21:46:44Z

My problems that I posted on March 17, 2007 seem to have finally resolved themselves. My personally assigned drive letter T: for the CDRW & V: for the read only CD player seem to be staying that way between boots now. Must have been corrected in a Microsoft update or something.

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Comment from Gary on 2007-12-07

2007-12-07T19:41:28Z

I bought a new Toshiba notebook, in order to run some of the old software.. I had to partition the HDD with a D: drive.. so, as required.. I had changed the CD ROM drive to E: drive.. after few days of struggle, everything is working.. all in a sudden.. I lost my E: drive?? now I have removed D: drive.. I mean removed the whole partition.. but I still can't see my CD ROM drive.. it is really frustrating.. anyone had this experience.. any solution?
thanks for all your help.
Gs

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Comment from Michael on 2007-11-17

2007-11-18T07:19:57Z

I tried reassignment but only got letters to change that are after the two that are missing.I have HP M370n Media Center.My Dvd writer Cd writer combo wont recognize cds /Mp3s that I recorded on it and shows up at 0 bytes like nothing is on it but there is.Also both my combo player/record and my other HP CD writer that I installed myself after the factory CD rom player quit has reassigned what was formerly E: 300n and F:HP 8000n to G:compactflashI/II - Cd Drive and H: smart media nad has the icons of both by them yet my smart media and compact flash is still L: and M: I cant figure out how to switch them back with icons and make them E and F again.I tried your method but it wont let me change to E or F as those letters seem to be missing.Any clues?Also I cant find updated drivers for 300n.

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Comment from Colin Hudson on 2007-10-24

2007-10-24T15:01:06Z

Help !!!!

I have an external drive which I back up to daily came to back up files and 2 things, the drive id has changed to F: and it states its full and do I want to format it...obviousley NO.

I thought if I renamed it to its previous drive letter in this case G:it would recognise the path and my files would be there, wrong so I have a drive that has heaps of data on it yet it shows it as full disc with no bytes and I cant read it.

Please can you help and advise what I need to do.

Many Thanks
Colin Hudson

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Comment from Christina Nation on 2007-10-19

2007-10-20T01:37:44Z

I freakkin LOVE YOU!

My external one day just went from G to N.

Dunno why. It irritated me to know end.
And, because that's one of my photo storage units the Lightroom has assigned to it's backups and databases...I was looking at a heap of crappy, crappy trouble.

You have saved my A$$.

Thank you again,

Christina

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Comment from CJ Parker on 2007-10-04

2007-10-05T03:02:41Z

I agree with Mike French. The site should be called
"Ask Beardo" because it makes so much more sense and would be funnier than just boring "Ask Leo". Thanks for the info!

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Comment from Andrew Lockhart on 2007-08-15

2007-08-15T23:05:00Z

I have a simular problem... except I have 3 drives in my pc. 1st one is an older ata and the other 2 are newer sata drives. when I re-installed windows it assigned my drives as follows:
c: is the older ata
d: is the first sata
e: is the second sata
Now here is my problem.
When Windows was installed it went on to the D: drive but C: is my boot drive. All the boot files are on that drive and not on the other two. I would like to remove my C: as it is getting older and does not sound that good.

There is currently nothing on either my C: (except the boot files) and E: drive.
I have tried to copy the boot files over to E: and removed C: and swapped the cables around but it still will not boot up.

Is there any way I can swap my C: and D: or C: and E: as I really want to remove my old drive before it fails???

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Comment from teun on 2007-06-13

2007-06-13T21:46:33Z

thanks Leo and all those great people posting helpful information on the internet! Always amazed how easy it is to find info ... thanks to those that devote time to helping others!

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Comment from Jeff on 2007-05-16

2007-05-16T18:49:11Z

What about the A: (floppy) drive. I have a computer that is only for use with a particular program. In the program it asked to "backup" and dose so on a floppy. It takes forever. If I could assign the USP card as the a: it would make things so much easier.

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Comment from Kenneth Bloom on 2007-04-16

2007-04-16T22:13:22Z

HI, I had to reistall my DVD on the "F" drive, and now its missing. Now I only have the "G" drive . Is there anything I can do?

Sincerly Kenny P.S I read the letters above but I don't understand it too well.

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Comment from devin on 2007-04-07

2007-04-08T04:08:00Z

I reassign drive letters to the way i need them. then everytime i reboot they change back??? why???
I just installed new raid sata hard drive. My raptor which has 200 gigs of info and audio/video session files on it needs to be set at drive D!! for some reason the dvd drive wants that letter evrytime i reboot??? help please!!???

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Comment from Jerry McCormick on 2007-03-21

2007-03-21T20:52:44Z

But my system always forgets the new drive letter assignments on my CDROM & CDRW drives. Everytime I boot up, the drive letters have changed back to the first available letters above my HDDs' partitions. To match my older computer's CDROM & CDRW drives' letters V: and T:, I have done the disk management drive letter change routine over and over, but each time I reboot these two drive come back as M: & N:. Additionally, Roxio's (EMC8) drag-to-disk will not let you change the non-existent M: to T: so that I can use it to eject, format, etc. It holds on to the erroneous M: even though no M: exists resulting in a rediculous message such as "Drive is Busy" when I try to use it to eject a CDRW. EMC8 "Home" properly shows the CDRW drive as T: but apparently Drag To Disk checks only during it's startup process and retains what it found at startup -- the erroneous M:. Help!

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Comment from William S on 2007-03-14

2007-03-15T01:54:52Z

I appreciate it Leo. You've made something that most people make out to be a four hour expedition through cmd a 20 second switch. You are now bookmarked bro.

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Comment from Leo Notenboom on 2007-03-05

2007-03-06T04:01:38Z

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Comment from John on 2007-03-05

2007-03-05T22:58:39Z

HI
This info was helpful but I'm still having a problem with reassigning the drive letter. For some reason when I installed XP it named my boot drive F: and my second drive C:. Before the change in operatiing systems they were boot: C:, and the second was D:Storage.
It let me change my storage drive letter, but won't let me change my boot drive from F to C.
Any suggestions?
Thanks

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Comment from Mike French on 2007-02-19

2007-02-19T21:13:37Z

Dude. Thanks for the drive switcheroo help. I never knew this stuff and I really appreciate your help, and all the hard work that you put into this site. But, it shouldn't be called "Ask Leo." You could name it something comical like "Ask Beardo." That would be more memorable and funnier. Beards are awesome to the max.

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Comment from Miles Nitz on 2007-02-14

2007-02-14T16:09:56Z

I have the same problem as the question on your website --- My drive letters are inverted C and D, so my computer looks through my D drive which it thinks is C to get to C which is marked as D, how can I fix this? (Posted by Sheila, 9-25-06) Were you able to answer this?

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Comment from Max on 2007-02-13

2007-02-13T09:33:25Z

Thanks you soooo much. I have been strugeling to find a easy to understand explination for 5 days now, your pictures and explinations are awesome. Thanks very much

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Comment from Monty on 2007-02-08

2007-02-08T17:38:24Z

That was great help..........

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Comment from shawn on 2007-01-03

2007-01-03T22:09:31Z

Oh my i'm so glad that i found you. I have spent 4 days tring to find out why my computer seen my flash drive but didnt show up when i went to my computer. well to keep it short my dvd drive and my flash drive had the same letter so i plugged in my flash drive and did just what you told me and now it works fine thank you ever so much...

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Comment from PJ Baron on 2006-11-08

2006-11-08T18:06:48Z

I just installed a 1X2 TX RAID system using RAID 1 for mirroring. Went I went to install windows it had my drives assigned to J: for the root!
Now using disk management under XP told me that I could not reassign the Windows Root Drive (J:)
How do I do this without reinstalling windows?

Regards,
PJ Baron

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Comment from Kevin on 2006-10-18

2006-10-18T12:39:29Z

How brilliant are you! How brilliant is knowledge! I have just spent 4 1/2 hours on the net and speaking to computer buffs searching for the answer to change drive letters (too complicated to explain why). CANNOT BE DONE - CHANGE THE BIOS - ALTER JUMPERS etc. etc. You managed it in under 2 minutes!!! (After I found you)You are wasted and should be as accesable as a screwdriver. You are now No1 Bookmark
Thankyou
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Comment from sheila on 2006-09-25

2006-09-25T20:47:23Z

My drive letters are inverted C and D, so my computer looks through my D drive which it thinks is C to get to C which is marked as D, how can I fix this?

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Comment from Dilance on 2006-08-13

2006-08-13T20:57:06Z

How easy was that! - Well done it worked and I have no further problems - Thanks Leo

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Comment from Ross on 2006-08-04

2006-08-05T05:26:56Z

I partition my 300gb drive and have got to n:/ so far. To avoid problems if I increase/reduce partitions I reserve x,y and z for cd and dvd. Sometimes if you change these and try to run a programme installed when the drive letter was F:/ there can be a problem.

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