How to assign and change a drive letter in Windows XP
Posted on January 10th, 2008 by thehabgroup
How to assign a drive letter
To assign a drive letter to a drive, a partition, or a volume, follow these steps:
| 1. | Log on as Administrator or as a member of the Administrators group. |
| 2. | Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Performance and Maintenance.Note If you do not see Performance and Maintenance, go to step 3. Performance and Maintenance appears in Control Panel only if you use Category view. If you use Classic view, Performance and Maintenance does not appear. |
| 3. | Click Administrative Tools, double-click Computer Management, and then click Disk Management in the left pane. |
| 4. | Right-click the drive, the partition, the logical drive, or the volume that you want to assign a drive letter to, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths. |
| 5. | Click Add. |
| 6. | Click Assign the following drive letter if it is not already selected, and then either accept the default drive letter or click the drive letter that you want to use. |
| 7. | Click OK. |
How to change a drive letter
To change an existing drive letter on a drive, on a partition, or on a volume, follow these steps:
| 1. | Log on as Administrator or as a member of the Administrators group. |
| 2. | Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Performance and Maintenance. |
| 3. | Click Administrative Tools, double-click Computer Management, and then click Disk Management in the left pane. |
| 4. | Right-click the drive, the partition, the logical drive, or the volume that you want to assign a drive letter to, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths. |
| 5. | Click Change. |
| 6. | Click Assign the following drive letter if it is not already selected, click the drive letter that you want to use, and then click OK. |
| 7. | Click Yes when you are prompted to confirm the drive letter change. |
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