Any way to restore an Drive letter designation?

sastusbulbas · 23 Jun 2010 at 00:20

Hi all,

My music movies and documents were all stored on my 1.5tb drive designated E.

I took the drives out to give the machine a clean out and add new fans and drives, my 1.5 storage drive has now been renamed drive D throwing my music player and media pointers all out in a tizz as they can't find E.

I am wondering if there is any way to reset my drive as E within windows 7 ultimate 64 as if I don't I may lose all my WAV metadata?

Temi_D · 23 Jun 2010 at 00:25

-Go to 'computer management' (type it in start menu)
-On the left, under 'storage', click 'disk management', that shows you a list of all your disks
-right click any of the drives and select 'change drive letter and paths'
- Since D and E are already in use, change one of the disks to any other letter then pick the one you want

sastusbulbas · 23 Jun 2010 at 07:14

I couldn't do the above as E was not listed nor in use.

I ended up doing a system restore after disconnecting the new hard drive, which seems to have worked but also left me with a few niggles to sort out.

Temi_D · 23 Jun 2010 at 09:43

You couldnt choose E because it was already in use.

What you should have done is change both drives to different letters ie not D and E. Then after then change the letters again then D and E would have been available

sastusbulbas · 23 Jun 2010 at 17:12

Temi_D said:
You couldnt choose E because it was already in use.

What you should have done is change both drives to different letters ie not D and E. Then after then change the letters again then D and E would have been available

E was not in use? As I said there was no drive E nor an E option in letter designation via disk management, so I could not change drive e to x then d to e and x to d.

System reboot did the trick but I had to remove drive F. I don't know why, guessing it had designated E as a USB or such? I refitted Sata cables in different ports too. But basically I got E back after the system reboot without the third drive and my DVD drive was asigned E, then today E became D again with the DVD drive labeled as my shared E drive, but disk management then allowed me to redesignate it as E?

Seems to be sorted now, can only assume E was hidden due to it being assigned to a USB?