Question on Changing Hard Drive Letter?.


  1. saltyseadog
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    Windows 10 Home version 2004
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    Question on Changing Hard Drive Letter?.


    I am running Windows 10 Home Edition, Version 20H2, OS Build 19042.985. Recently with the help of some forum members I installed a new Samsung 970EVO 1TB NVMe SSD as my "C" drive and imported all from my older 125GB Samsung SSD using the Samsung migration tool. It all went well apart from one thing.

    I have two other internal hard drives, a Samsung 500GB and a Toshiba 1TB which I use for storage. Under the previous SSD the Samsung was designated drive "D" and the Toshiba drive "F". The new NVMe SSD drive "C" has designated the Samsung as drive "F" and the Toshiba as drive "D". Not a problem you might think until I go to transfer a file from the C drive to either of the other two using the "send to" menu option which still keeps the older designation so if I send a file to drive D from C it goes to drive F instead and vice versa. Of course as I know of the problem I can just remembver to send them to the correct drive but it would be easier if I could just change the drive designations to the proper D & F the same as the SSD but don't know how to do this?.

    Any help again greatly appreciated.
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  3. Brink
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    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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    Hello,

    The tutorial below can help show you how to change the drive letter of the other two internal drives to what you want.

    Change and Assign Drive Letter in Windows 10​
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  4. Paul Black
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    Win 10 Pro 64-bit v1909 - Build 18363 Custom ISO Install
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    Hello @saltyseadog,

    Just to add to Brinks excellent Tutorial, also look at the Related Tutorials at the bottom of that Tutorial for additional information that you might find useful . . .

    Related Tutorials:

    How to Remove a Drive Letter in Windows 10
    How to Hide or Show Drive Letters in Windows 10
    How to Show Drive Letters Before or After Drive Name in Windows 10
    How to Change a Drive Icon in Windows 10
    How to Rename Drive Label in Windows 10
    How to Hide Specified Drives in Windows
    How to Format a Disk or Drive in Windows 10
    How to Delete Volume or Partition in Windows 10
    How to Extend Volume or Partition in Windows 10
    How to Shrink a Volume or Partition in Windows 10
    How to Enable or Disable Automatic Mounting of New Disks and Drives in Windows
    How to Mount and Unmount a Drive or Volume in Windows

    I hope this helps.
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