Ext HDD drive letters swapped

Discussion in 'Hardware' started by mnero01, Apr 28, 2010.

  1. mnero01

    mnero01 Private E-2

    The other night I unplugged ext HDD "G" to use a USB flash drive and since then my two ext HDD drive ID letters are swapped. Ive tried uplugging them to see if the system will reprioritize but it wont. Is there an easy fix. I tried system restore but it didnt help.
     
    mnero01, Apr 28, 2010
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  2. GCWesq

    GCWesq MajorGeek

    Hey! First post! Welcome aboard!
    This tells you how to assign, change and remove drive letters in XP:
    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307844
    There should be similar stuff around for other OS's.
     
    GCWesq, Apr 29, 2010
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  3. DavidGP

    DavidGP MajorGeeks Forum Administrator - Grand Pooh-Bah Staff Member

    Yes its the same steps and location in Vista and Windows 7, GCWest.

    Know the drive letters to get mixed up a fair bit, especially if you plug a portable drive into another PC and that PC has at some point had a drive with said drive letter already allocated it will change at times the letter to one not used thus when you use the drive in.the default PC the letter had changed.
     
    DavidGP, Apr 29, 2010
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