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November 8, 2009

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Changing Drive Letters in Windows XP

To change drive letters in Windows XP access the Computer Management administrative tool. To do this open the control panel (change to classic view). Then open the Administrative Tools folder and then double click the Computer Management icon. Once loaded expand the Storage tree if closed and click on Disk Management as shown in the image below.

Computer Managment console

Then to change a drive letter right click on the partition or other device, and select 'change drive letter and paths...' from the list.

Change Drive Letter/path dialog

A window with a title of change drive letter or path for x: will appear, the drive you have chosen to change will be shown with 3 buttons (add, change, remove). Select Change, this will open another window called change drive letters or path. Select the desired available drive letter from the drop box and click Ok.

  Partitions that are marked as (System) such as C: in the 1st picture cannot have their drive letter changed. Also do not change the drive letters of partition containing installed software or operating systems.

Note: CD/DVD devices will not show in the upper right window unless a CD-Rom is inserted in the drive.

  
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