#Change drive letter and paths Pc#

This tutorial is going to be applicable for all computers running Windows XP / Vista or any other version of Windows newer than that.Д«efore discussing any further, letвЂ™s talk about somethings that you should remember before you start changing the drive letters, or assign new ones to the drives connected to your system.

However, as the Windows disk management tool is sufficient to change drive letters, it is not a smart idea to count on a third-party program for the same.

#Change drive letter and paths Pc#

You will have to use the disk management tool on Windows PC or laptops to change the drive letters or assign new drive letters, or you can also use any third-party program to do the same.

It will hardly take a minute or two to change all the drive letters connect to your computer, just in case you need it. Keeping that in mind, it is really easy on Windows 10/8/7 computers to change or assign a new drive letter to the drive connected to your system and I will talk about, how you can do that, in this DIY article. But the task of automatically assigning a drive letter to the drives can go against you in several situations when you want better management of the drives on your system, or you want the external drive to be assigned a different set of letters to easily transfer files between them. The task of assigning drive letters to drives is taken care of by Windows so that you do not need to do it manually and every time you connect a new drive to the system a drive letter is assigned after it is recognized by your system.

That makes it easier for us to recognize individual partitions and media devices like USB flash drives, external hard drives when they are connected to our PC or Laptop. In this tutorial will learn the steps to assign or change the hard disk drive partition identification letters on Windows 10/8/7 PC and laptop systems.Д«eing a Windows user, everybody is quite familiar with drive letters assigned to the partitions on the system.