Assigning a drive letter to external HDD

Stephen P · 25-07-2008 8:27am #1

A mate of mine bought a 500GB WD Elements HDD for his laptop. Any time he connects the drive to his laptop the system gives the HDD a different drive letter. Is there any way he can permanently assign a letter to the drive?

Cheers!

Bald? er, dash! · 25-07-2008 8:36am

Right Click on My Computer, then click on Manage, click on Disk Management under the Storage option in the Computer Management window. Find the External HDD on the list of drives, right click and choose Change Drive Letter & Paths, then pick the drive letter of your choosing

Edit:
Whatever you do though don't f**k about with the drive letter for your operating system/program files etc.

Stephen P · 25-07-2008 9:32am

Will the drive remember that every time its connected?

Overheal · 25-07-2008 9:42am

stephen p wrote: »

Will the drive remember that every time its connected?

the device should be given a unique serial ID thats embedded in the device itself somehow - so yes.

Stephen P · 25-07-2008 9:52am

Thanks lads for the replies!!

mukki · 25-07-2008 4:50pm

did it work??

thats will be handy for running synctoy to a removable drive,as they change letter sometimes, I assumed it was not possibal to manually assign a drive letter

Stephen P · 26-07-2008 11:07am

It seemed to have worked for him. Thanks again to those who helped!

Jonathan · 26-07-2008 12:02pm

Bald? er, dash! wrote: »

Whatever you do though don't f**k about with the drive letter for your operating system/program files etc.

Doesnt matter. Windows wont let you change it without regediting.

Assigning a drive letter to external HDD

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