Introduction
There are some circumstances that may have you changing a drive letter, today I had to do just that due to a hard drive not showing up on a machine. In this post I will show how to change a drives letter on Windows 10.
Disk Management
First up you want to right click your ‘Start Menu‘ and click on ‘Disk Management‘.
In ‘Disk Management‘ you want to find the drive you want to change, in this case I will use this SD card I have plugged in, ‘Right Click‘ it and select ‘Change Drive Letter and Paths…‘.
Change drive letter
You want to highlight the drives letter, in this case it’s ‘F:’ and then click on ‘Change…‘
Note: Remember this drive letter in case there’s any issues later on so you can revert back to it.
You’ll then be presented with this window, you need to simply click the drop down and choose your drive letter, make sure it’s not in use by anything else otherwise it will stop that device working and cause issues, e.g. a secondary hard drive if you have one.
You’ll be shown this confirmation message, decide if you want to continue. If you find the change you’ve made causes issues you can simply follow the same process and set it to the old drive letter, this should then rectify any issues caused by it.
Quick steps
Right click the ‘Start Menu’ > open ‘Disk Management‘ > right click the drive and choose to ‘Change Drive Letter and Paths…’ > choose a letter > decide if you want to continue
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