Can I change drive numbers from within windows 10?

Here you should find the settings.



Go to the tutorials and find what you need
Good Luck

Megahertz said:

Back to your computer.
- Your computer seems to be a big mess. The boot loader on the EFI partition and the Recovery partition are on different drives than the OS that is on C:
What Pentagon is trying to do is to fix this mess but has nothing to do with what you ask.

Whatever he writes, it's full of mistakes like here:

@Megahertz

https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/...d-359be0a6d546

The article says

The disk-assignment numbers may not necessarily match the corresponding SATA or RAID channel numbers.

The BIOS may or may not enumerate disks in a specific order.
There is no direct relationship between the BIOS order, and the order in which Windows numbers the disks.

That is for sata . I havent seen any documentation for nvme relevant to this.

@SIW2

In post #4 Bob 1954 writes: "Where would I find disk manager?"
and in post #6 he writes: "I was under the impression there was only 1 drive of 1 TByte, why does it say disk 0 and disk 1 ...?"

This is enough to evaluate his knowledge and his background and Megahertz didn't read or didn't understand the post.

Using NVMes makes it more complicated, because it depends on how it is attached to the MB, meaning PCI or M.2 port.
Some years ago I had to investigate that, when I started a Recovery from Windows. The system changed the disk numbers and my Backup-Software restored the image to a wrong disk.
That was a lesson I had to learn and not funny.

About a year ago I was talking with some friends about the fact that windows 10 was not going to be supported beyond 2026 and everyone would need to buy a new computer as most computers in use were not capable of running windows 11. A number of them said it was not a problem to them as they ran linux. I asked about linux and was told one of them had an old computer that he would set up windows 10 and linux on for me.
He gave me this.

I connected it, got a few lines at the top of the screen telling me to choose between linux and windows, whichever I chose it loaded for me.
I didn't want to know where or how the drive/s were configured and left it at that.
I opened the thread on here to ask if it was possible to stop the computer altering the drive letter of my google drive as I have programs such as VeeCad on there ( it allows me to run VeeCad and all its files from my old computer in the bed room or this one in the study).
I thought it showed a c: and a d: drive due to the way linux and windows were saved in the computer.
I contacted one of my friends who has told me the computer contains two SSD drives but he can't remember how they were configured.
It was only when I opened the disk management box that I saw how 'fragmented' the drive/s were.
I assume I have now lost the linux operating system.
I rarely used it as it asked me for my password every time I tried to do something whilst the windows 10 didn't but there were some files on there I would have liked to have saved.
Is there any need for the file winRE.wim and does it really make any difference that everything looks to be in the wrong place on the drives, how easy would it be to correct "The boot loader on the EFI partition and the Recovery partition are on different drives than the OS that is on C:"?
Finally can I just say to Pentagon "Yes I know very little about the workings of windows, that is why I am on here asking for help."

Berton said:

Disk Management won't show drive fragmentation but does show partitions on the drive/s. Windows install will create 3 to 5 partitions as it needs during the first install. Posting a screenshot of your Disk Management can be helpful.

See post 44 for the most up to date one.