When yous connect a new bulldoze to your PC, Windows automatically assigns the next available letter after C, which is normally used for your system drive. So an external difficult bulldoze or USB thumb bulldoze could end upwards as D, East, F, or whatsoever, depending on how many drive messages are already being used.

This is all well and expert, but what if you want to assign the drive a letter? Maybe yous want to use Grand for your music files or 10 for your top-secret X-Files. Here'due south how in Windows 10.

  1. Ensure that the drive you're relettering isn't in apply and that no files from that drive are open.
  2. Right-click on the Start button.
  3. Click Disk Management to open the Disk Direction console.
  4. Right-click the volume that has the drive letter you lot desire to change.
  5. Click Change Drive Letter And Paths.
  6. Click the Alter button.
  7. Choose from a listing of available bulldoze letters. (Don't use A or B, which have historically been reserved for floppy drives and can quondam confuse older software.)
  8. Click OK.
  9. Click Yeah if a popup windows appears request if you really want to practice this.
  10. Shut the Disk Management console.

Yous may need to restart your automobile for the alter to have effect, just once y'all do the drive will use the new letter.

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