How do I change the drive letter that is associated with my external hard drive?

Question

When I first started using it the drive letter was F: and everything worked fine. I had to download some info onto a coworker's thumb drive and that's when it changed. I plugged his thumb drive in before I plugged my external hard drive in and every since the drive letter is G:. Every program I installed on the external hard drive has the location of F: so as a result if I click on the short cut it cannot find the program. How do I change the drive letter back to F:?

Answer 1

If using XP, goto start, control panel, click on admin tools, then computer management, then click on disk managment, then right click the letter of the drive you want to change and left click change drive letter.

Answer 2

Right click on "My Computer".
Select "Manage"
on Computer Management, click on "Disk Management"
on Volume (G:), right click it to get "Change Drive Letter and Path"

Answer 3

Well somehow your drive name in computer has changed.Now do onething when ever you try to run program whic earlier was instaled in f drive will search for f drive now window will show you to search manually then give window a path from browse option and it will run as usual.

Answer 4

good click on my computing device icon on the laptop and choose take care of then bypass to disk administration then choose for the problematic disk from the checklist (very careful so which you dont get the incorrect one) and delete the two partitions then create a sparkling one complete length.

Answer 5

USB Drive letter assignment application.

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html

Or use the follow step by step with pics to see how to do it.

http://www.jmu.edu/computing/helpdesk/selfhelp/drivemappingdetail.shtml

Answer 6

Did you try taking out the hardrive and putting it back in/ reattaching it?