How to Change Drive Letter in Windows 10/8/7 [Tutorial]

How to Change Drive Letter in Windows 10/8/7 [Tutorial]

Anytime you connect an external hard drive to a PC, the computer assigns it a drive letter that enables computer programs -- and you -- to identify it. By default, Windows usually assigns specific letters such as E:, J:, or G: to hard disk drives. You can change these drive letters if you want to keep your company's computer systems organized a certain way. You must be logged on to your computer as the administrator to change the external hard drive's letter.

While they might seem set in stone, the letters assigned to your hard drives, optical drives, and USB based drives in Windows are very much not a fixed thing.

Maybe you're using a new external hard drive and now you want to change the drive letter to G from the F it was assigned, or maybe you just like to keep your flash drives organized at the end of the alphabet.

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On Windows 10, when connecting a removable storage device or an internal hard drive, the system detects and assigns a drive letter automatically to make it usable. However, when reconnecting an external drive (such as a USB flash drive or SD or microSD cards), the system can end up assigning a different letter, which can be annoying.

This tutorial will apply for computers, laptops, desktops, and tablets running the Windows 10, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 7 operating systems. Works for all major computer manufactures (Dell, HP, Acer, Asus, Toshiba, Lenovo, Samsung).

[davidjonesfranca]

Hello, good morning.. thanks for your help at this video, but really wasn't enable to make it work.. My driver (external) was not available to be changed to the letter that was yesterday. I simply turned my computer off yesterday and on this morning. The letter is F, but when I right clicked and went to change to the correct letter (a lot of programs as seeding torrents and ftp files are already pathed with this letter), windows haven't offered me the original letter to be used. Something I missed or needed to be done before this process? Thanks a lot..!!! :)