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Topic External hard drive : drive letter changed
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Tubbz Posted at 11:04 am on Jan. 6, 2009
IS there any way I can chnage the name (letter) of my external hard drive.

The first time I used it, it was drive G, now it's drive H any way I can change it back?

It's because of Itunes, all my music is on it and I'd have to change the file location of every song otherwise.

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Tubbz Posted at 11:15 am on Jan. 6, 2009
Cheers, lifesavers
Darkane Posted at 11:07 am on Jan. 6, 2009
Found this on the microsoft help site:


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:
Log on as Administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Performance and Maintenance.
Click Administrative Tools, double-click Computer Management, and then click Disk Management in the left pane.
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.
Click Change.
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.
Click Yes when you are prompted to confirm the drive letter change.
The drive letter of the drive, the partition, or the volume that you specified is changed, and the new drive letter appears in the appropriate drive, partition, or volume in the Disk Management tool.

marshmellowman Posted at 11:06 am on Jan. 6, 2009
Yes, you can change it, or assign other letters, in the Disk Management application hidden in the Administrative Tools folder (which should be either in Control Panel or in the Start Menu).
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