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How to change drive letters--even when the letter you want isn't available |
July 05, 2013
Jack McCabe wants Windows to identify his data drive as D:, but D: is already taken.
We were using drive letters before DOS, and I'm surprised we're still using them. Everyone knows that C: is the main drive--or at least the one Windows boots from. (Why C:? Because A: and B: were originally reserved for floppies.) But not everyone knows that if you have an administrator-level account, you can reassign drive letters.
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Here's how to change a PC's drive letters:
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