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How to change a hard drive letter in Windows XP
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Go to the start menu.
Right click on my computer or computer for Windows Vista.
Choose manage from the menu.
If you add a second hard drive to your computer, sometimes it will not be recognized by your computer until you assign it a drive letter. This is very easy. Just follow the steps above, but instead of renaming a drive letter you will be assigning a new drive letter to the unlabelled hard drive. In the above screenshot you will see a hard drive with no drive letter. Simple right click on it to begin the steps.
Obviously this warning will appear if you are trying to change the drive letter of the main hard drive that your Windows operating system is on.
The best time to change a drive letter is when your computer is new or newly formatted. If you change a drive letter of a partition when you have already installed programs on it, you will cause these programs to not work. For example if you installed a game on D: drive and then later changed the D: drive to F: drive the game will not work. Firstly if you click on the desktop icon it will point to D:\Program Files\game folder\game.exe to start the game...But now the game is on F: See the problem here?
If your computer does not have a floppy disk drive, you can assign A and B as drive letters to removable drives.
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