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Resolved Unable to change drive letter

Discussion in 'Windows 10' started by Dingus, 2016/06/12.

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    Dingus

    Dingus Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    OK so I've now got an upgraded PC.
    One thing I did was to re-orginising my drives.
    Here is the problem. Having reformated and reorginised all my drives, I can no longer name my second drive (Using Disk Management) to drive D:
    So what I hear. Well I use this drive as a backup drive for MANY other PCs using FTP. If I can't name it D: this would mean contacting everyone and updating the backup programs to the now E: drive.
    I think if I can fix this little issue it will be MUCH easier.

    In Disk Management there is no option to select D: when renaming. I assume it's already allocated, but I can't see where.

    Any ideas guys?
     
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    Bill

    Bill SuperGeek WindowsBBS Team Member

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    You don't want to rename the drive, you want to select the option to "Change Drive Letter and Paths... ".
     
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    Dingus

    Dingus Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Yes Bill. I want to change it to drive D:
     
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    Another drive is probably assigned D. Change the drive letter of that drive first to Z. Then change the one you want to D. Then change the Z back to whatever letter you want. Any drive or partition can have its letter changed except the C drive/partition.
     
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    Dingus

    Dingus Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Yes Tony, but that's my problem. I can't see anything assigned D:
     
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    Dingus

    Dingus Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Arie

    Arie Administrator Administrator Staff

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    More than likely your CD-ROM is drive D.

    You can get a listing with this command from a command prompt:
    wmic logicaldisk get deviceid, volumename, description

    If you want it in a text file to copy here:

    cmd /c wmic logicaldisk get deviceid, volumename, description>%temp%\$.$&notepad %temp%\$.$
     
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    Bill

    Bill SuperGeek WindowsBBS Team Member

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    :( Again - you are NOT renaming it, you are changing the drive letter. Renaming and changing the drive letter are 2 different functions. And if your optical is D, change it's letter to Q or Z or something out of the way.
     
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    Dingus

    Dingus Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Arie, your a genious. That command 'wmic logicaldisk get deviceid, volumename, description' did the trick.
    It was the CD drive that has 'D' and I, like an idiot, didn't see it. What an idiot I feel.

    Thanks AGAIN.
     
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    Arie

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    Glad I could help.
     
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