It happens that when installing Windows or during disk partitioning operations, the disks are assigned the wrong drive letter. Agree, it doesn't look very nice when drive C is immediately followed by drive E. Sometimes you need to swap drive letters. In this case, you can completely get by with the standard means of the operating system, without resorting to third-party programs.
Necessary
Windows computer
Instructions
Step 1
There can be several situations. In the first, you just need to change the drive letter to any free one, and in the other, which is also common, you will need to swap the drive letters.
Step 2
Suppose you have two disks (one has the letter C, the other has an E) and you want to change the letter E to D, with the letter D free. To change the letter, go to the "Start" menu -> "Control Panel", then select "Administrative Tools" and "Computer Management". Next, in the console, click on the "Disk Management" line. Then right-click on the E drive and select "Change drive letter or drive path", then in the window that opens, click "Change". Next, opposite the phrase about assigning a drive letter in the drop-down menu, select the letter D.
Step 3
It is more difficult when you need to swap drive letters. To do this, you must first make one of the letters free. For example, the following case: there is drive E and drive D. You want to swap letters.
Step 4
To do this, you first need to assign drive D any free letter in the drop-down list, for example, Q, then change the letter of the section E to D. After that, you can rename drive Q to E.
Step 5
Experienced users will find it useful to know that the operation of changing the drive letter can be done using the command line. To do this, open the command line ("Start" -> "Run" -> cmd or Start "and type" Command Prompt "in the search bar) and enter diskpart. At the diskpart command prompt, enter list volume. The screen will display a list of available disks and their numbers. Memorize them or write them down. Next, type
select volume n. With this command, you select drive n, with which the letter change operations will take place. To assign a new drive letter to this drive, enter assign letter = X, where X is the new drive letter.
