How do I change the drive letters of removable storage?

Question

I want to change the drive letters of the removable storage (ex. Compact Flash, SD...) They don't appear in disk management so how do I change the drive letters. the card reader is mounted inside the computer and the hsrd drive is external. I want the hard drive partitions before the removable storage. The removable storage is empty, but I would like to be able to use it with my compact flash card from my digital camera every once in a while. All help is appreciated. Thanks

Answer 1

If you have Windows XP or Windows 2000, plug in the Harddrive, go to my computer icon, right click, choose manage, the computer management console will open, once it does, go to Storage - Disk Management, there all your drives should appear, as well as their assigned letter.

To change the letter right click any of them and choose "Change Drive letter and paths..."

Remember you cannot assign the same letter to two drives connected at the same time. My suggestion is move removable storage to letter towards the end. This setting should be saved for future uses.

Good luck

Answer 2

Harddrives always have priority, when drive letters are assigned. Open the device manager, and click on Disk Drivers, then click on the removable storage device and click on the settings tab, set the reserve drive letter to a high letter, like "M", your removable storage device will then have a high letter, and any other device will take a lower letter.

Answer 3

Don't fool with it. Why would you want to? Are you just trying to put the drives in alphabetical order? Not being rude, but as long as you know what the drive is when you go to use it, changing the drive letter serves no purpose.

Answer 4

variety "diskmgmt.msc" in run and a clean window will pops up. on the hot window, that's "Disk administration" residing house windows, there you'll see record of all the difficult force and detachable force there. good click on the motive force that you want to modify motive force letter to and then elect "replace force letter and paths......then you extremely can replace the force letter.

Answer 5

Plug in your external device, then go to My Computer. In there, find your external device, right click on it, then go to properties. Then in there you should find it's name, you should just me able to change the name right then and there.