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Published on October 13th, 2012 | by Divyansh

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Easy steps to change the Drive Letter in Windows 7,8,Vista,XP


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    Easy steps to change the Drive Letter in Windows 7,Vista,XP

    Are you planning to change the drive letter of your disk drive or are adding a new Hard-Disk Drive or CD-DVD Drive and want to give it a new drive letter same as your name ?

    You can change Drive letter of any Hard disk drive or CD-DVD Drive using this Method. This method is even applicable for the USB drives that you plug to your Computer.

    Then you need to follow these steps :

    Step 1 :

    Go to Start >> Control Panel >> Administrative tools

    Change hard-disk Drive letter in windows vista, 7,xp

    Here make sure you have View by small icons activated

    Step 2 :

    Open  Computer Management

    Click the Disk Management

    Disk management of Changing Drive letter

    Step 3 :

    Right click the Drive of which you want to change name.

    Right click to change drive letter - here is image

    Click Change

    Click change- the drive letter

    Step 4 :

    Select the Letter you want to assign to it  ( Like we chose H: replacing D: )  :

    Select the drive letter you want- like here we chose H instead of D

    Click OK and then Yes in a new alert pop-up

    click yes on alert bar

     

    Its done :

    Drive letter changed in windows xp,vista,7 tutorial complete

    The drive letter has been changed to H.

    Note: It is recommended not to change the letters of drives on which you have installed softwares.

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      4 Responses to Easy steps to change the Drive Letter in Windows 7,8,Vista,XP

      1. Felicia says:

        An easier way to get into computer management is to right click on my computer (or computer in win explorer or from the start button), and click on manage. I always change the drive letter of my optical drive into Z so that no matter what external drive I plug in to my computer, my internal optical drive is always at the same drive.

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      2. Jack says:

        thks, now can can use my drives with custom letters.
        Specially assiged usb drive the last letter Y and Z because they earlier used to conflict the softwares installed on them.
        Thanks again

      3. Anshu says:

        Just used it in my new laptop…changed dvd drive to all drive letters to assign D to DVD drive.
        Thks bud

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