Can not Change drive letter Windows 7

Anonymous
2009-09-29T22:10:31+00:00

The error message "disk Management console view not up to date" comes up everytime I try to change the drive letter for an external USB hard drive.   I tried diskpart but it only lists drives with letters.

OS Name Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate

Version 6.1.7600 Build 7600

Other OS Description  Not Available

OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation

System Name DAD-PC

System Manufacturer System manufacturer

System Model System Product Name

System Type X86-based PC

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU         975  @ 3.33GHz, 3334 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 8 Logical Processor(s)

BIOS Version/Date American Megatrends Inc. 0707, 8/18/2009

SMBIOS Version 2.5

Windows Directory C:\Windows

System Directory C:\Windows\system32

Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1

Locale United States

Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.1.7600.16385"

User Name Dad-PC\Dad

Time Zone Mountain Daylight Time

Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 12.0 GB

Total Physical Memory 1.49 GB

Available Physical Memory 655 MB

Total Virtual Memory 2.98 GB

Available Virtual Memory 1.40 GB

Page File Space 1.49 GB

Page File C:\pagefile.sys

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Anonymous
2009-09-30T13:31:30+00:00

Hello,

Hello TestPantaloon,

You must be logged on as an administrator to perform these steps.

If you don't like the letter Windows has assigned to a new drive or you want to organize your drive letters in a certain way, you can change the drive letter.You can assign the letters C through Z to each drive on your computer. A and B are usually reserved for floppy disk drives, but if your computer does not have floppy disk drives, you can assign A and B to volumes. You can see which drive letters are used on your computer by opening Computer.
<br> • Open Computer by clicking the<br>Start button, and then clicking Computer. <br> --- ---

You can change, add, or remove a drive letter by using Computer Management.
<br>1.      <br>Open Computer Management by clicking the<br>Start button, clicking Control Panel, clicking System and Maintenance, clicking Administrative Tools, and then double-clicking<br>Computer Management. If you are prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation. <br> --- --- <br> <br>2.      <br>In the Navigation pane, click<br>Disk Management. <br> <br>3.      <br>Right-click the partition or drive that you want to change, and then click<br>Change Drive Letter and Paths. <br> <br>4.      <br>Do one of the following:<br><br><br><br> • To assign a drive letter if one has not already been assigned, click<br>Add, click the letter that you want to use, and then click OK. <br> --- --- <br> • To change a drive letter, click<br>Change, click Assign the following drive letter, click the letter that you want to use, and then click<br>OK. <br> • To remove a drive letter, click<br>Remove, and then click Yes to confirm that you want to remove it.

Once you have done this, look in Computer, now simply right click to create a shortcut from there and it will put it on the desktop!

Hope this helps you. Let us know either way. Make it a great day!

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-01-28T01:54:33+00:00

    I'm not sure about your glitch but the way to change a drive letter on Window 7 is like this:

    Start Button

    Control Panel

    System Security

    Under Administrative Tools Click Create and Format Hard Disk Partitions

    This should show you all of your drives

    Left Click the Drive that has the letter you want to change (example My Backup Drive (Q:)

    Once it is highlighted right click the mouse and it should give you a menu

    Select Change Drive Letter and Paths:

    Make the Changes and you want.

    I hope this helps - I found it by accident.

    Lynn

    landlwebhosting.com

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  2. Anonymous
    2009-12-31T00:24:49+00:00

    I too have had several similar issues like this while using Vista with multiple internal drives with multiple partitions.  My conclusion was:  It depends on how the partitions were created; my only problem is that I'm not sure which of them work.  There is one I'm sure does work.  Of all methods I have used, when I created my partitions with Diskpart, I had no problems when switching OSs.  Then only cure I have found was to back-up the partition, use Diskpart to delete and re-create them, then use the new OS to restore what I had on the partition. 

    I concur with the LynnD1971, It's obviously a bug.

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  3. Anonymous
    2009-11-14T19:15:39+00:00

    Any chance of an answer to thise that is not a page from Windows for Dummies? It's obviously a bug.

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  4. Anonymous
    2009-11-04T22:12:56+00:00

    Me too. Cannot assign drive letter to 2nd partition of external USB hard drive.

    MS must have a solution!

    Followed the suggestion to Refresh view, restart DM, restart computer.

    No problem addressing from dual-boot WinXP.

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