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External hard drive has changed drive letter from E to F causing chaos, please help!

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  1. 2005/07/26
    Londoner776

    Londoner776 Inactive Thread Starter

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    hi there windows genius, please could you help?

    when i plugged in a new digital camera, that became drive E, and my external hard drive previously E, became drive F. It's still drive F, even when the camera isn't plugged in. how can I get the hard drive back to being drive E? It has caused chaos with my itunes music program, because itunes can't find any of it's files because it's looking for a non-existant drive. If anyone has a solution i'd be very grateful. should i just uninstall the camera software?

    thanks
     
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    Steve R Jones

    Steve R Jones SuperGeek Staff

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    Am guessing that the drive is USB? Us the Stop function and unplug the drive. Reboot. Plug the drive back in.

    Or, click on Start->Run and type: DISKMGMT.msc and Right click on the drive nad select the Change drive letter option.
     

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    Londoner776

    Londoner776 Inactive Thread Starter

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    Thanks!

    Thank you very much, that's great, i'll have to remember that.
     
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    charlesvar

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    Was the external HD plugged in when you added the digital camera?

    If not, to avoid this sort of thing, when adding a new external device, have all previous devices plugged in. This needs to be done just that one time, once the new device is established, then it can be present by itself w/o the others present.

    Regards - Charles
     
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    Londoner776

    Londoner776 Inactive Thread Starter

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    thanks charles, that makes good sense, i'll remember it.
     
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