Reallocate Hard Disk Name

[jtay]

Hi, Can someone help advise me as I haven't done any desktop support since DOS days!

I've been reading this forum and have discovered that my USB flash drives won't work because the F: drive mapping has already been allocated (to one of my 2 hard disk drives) when the machine was built. What I need to know is how can I reallocate the hard disk drive currently allocated to F: to another drive mapping (G: is spare)? Is this a straightforward renaming/remapping task or do I have to completely reinstall the hard disk?

Thx, J

 

[mike99]

Open Help Centre and search on "change drive letter", then follow the instructions.

Mike.

 

[etomasula]

Its fairly straight foward. Go to Start Run: type diskmgmt.msc to bring up disk manager. from there you can right click your drive and select Change Drive letter and path.

 

[croc]

As long as there are no links to the drive you want to remap, it is a simple process (as described in several posts above).

If you've installed a program from that drive, it will probably need to be uninstalled / re-installed to function cleanly.

 

[nukemaster]

Its all under diskmgmt.msc

Enjoy.