Why cant i Assign a drive that was previously assigned to the E: Drive as an E: drive?

[CottonAz]

So I recently got a GPU replaced in my computer from the local Computer fix it place and now the E: Drive thinks its an F: Drive and I cant fix it into thinking its an E: Drive. I've tried to change the lettering as you might get to with googling the fixes but nothing seems to work how can I make it an E: Drive when the danm letter doesnt show up? It just skips from B to F

[CottonAz]

It was an E: drive before the GPU broke and then when i Got it back it wasnts an E: Drive anymore the computer recoginzed it as a F: drive

[okkee]

14 minutes ago, CottonAz said:

So I recently got a GPU replaced in my computer from the local Computer fix it place and now the E: Drive thinks its an F: Drive and I cant fix it into thinking its an E: Drive. I've tried to change the lettering as you might get to with googling the fixes but nothing seems to work how can I make it an E: Drive when the danm letter doesnt show up? It just skips from B to F

windows reserves the os drive + the next two letters. so if the boot drive is c: then d: and e: are unavailable for assigning. they store like windows files or something i think. i'm not too sure how to go about changing it tho. do you really need to change it?

[PDifolco]

10 minutes ago, okkee said:

windows reserves the os drive + the next two letters. so if the boot drive is c: then d: and e: are unavailable for assigning. they store like windows files or something i think. i'm not too sure how to go about changing it tho. do you really need to change it?

Are you sure ? I was able to swap D: E: F: letters with no issue when changing/adding drives

iirc Windows only reserve A: to C: letters

 

[Levent]

12 minutes ago, okkee said:

windows reserves the os drive + the next two letters. so if the boot drive is c: then d: and e: are unavailable for assigning. they store like windows files or something i think. i'm not too sure how to go about changing it tho. do you really need to change it?

Bullshit. Its not 1990 or we are talking about MSDOS.

[Poinkachu]

32 minutes ago, CottonAz said:

It was an E: drive before the GPU broke and then when i Got it back it wasnts an E: Drive anymore the computer recoginzed it as a F: drive

Scroll down and see if that letter assigned to a removable drive

 

19 minutes ago, okkee said:

windows reserves the os drive + the next two letters. so if the boot drive is c: then d: and e: are unavailable for assigning. they store like windows files or something i think. i'm not too sure how to go about changing it tho. do you really need to change it?

Eh, nah, I can assign D and E

 

[kitnoman]

A few things you can try:

 

1 try to scroll down to check if the old E drive is still listed and remove it.

2 Boot in safe mode and try again.

3 check your registry and edit or delete it from there. But I forget path, just google it.

4 It might have been associated with removable drives, try removing and/or inserting usb drives to confirm.

5 Try to rebuild the bcd(again google for the steps).

[CottonAz]

3 hours ago, PDifolco said:

Are you sure ? I was able to swap D: E: F: letters with no issue when changing/adding drives

iirc Windows only reserve A: to C: letters

 

Pretty sure

 

[CottonAz]

3 hours ago, Levent said:

Bullshit. Its not 1990 or we are talking about MSDOS.

Bullshit is my middle name idk why this is happening. I'm just trying to get the drive changed to E so that my shit will stop asking to connect it

[PDifolco]

Just now, CottonAz said:

Bullshit is my middle name idk why this is happening. I'm just trying to get the drive changed to E so that my shit will stop asking to connect it

Pls post a full pic of your drives/partition, there may be some something assigned to E: already

[CottonAz]

3 hours ago, Poinkachu said:

Scroll down and see if that letter assigned to a removable drive

 

Eh, nah, I can assign D and E

 

Okay now where getting somewhere what should I do now?

[CottonAz]

4 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

Pls post a full pic of your drives/partition, there may be some something assigned to E: already

Better yet. Now what should i change the CD-Rom too?

 

 

• Poinkachu

 

[PDifolco]

4 minutes ago, CottonAz said:

Okay now where getting somewhere what should I do now?

E:  is your CD ROM lol, that still exists !!

Reassign it to F: or whatever first

 

 

[CottonAz]

2 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

E:  is your CD ROM lol, that still exists !!

Reassign it to F: or whatever first

 

 

Right i did that and reassigned my F: Drive to E: everything seems to be lining up Thanks alot for walking me through the steps i tend to get carried away. Idk why it switched i was getting alot of weird stuff after they put in the new GPU. Comp was trying to boot off of a thumb drive that it was never trying to boot off of before gave me a fright when it said there was no operating system. 

 

[CottonAz]

Thanks everyone for helping! Everything seems to be working now!

[PDifolco]

3 minutes ago, CottonAz said:

Right i did that and reassigned my F: Drive to E: everything seems to be lining up Thanks alot for walking me through the steps i tend to get carried away. Idk why it switched i was getting alot of weird stuff after they put in the new GPU. Comp was trying to boot off of a thumb drive that it was never trying to boot off of before gave me a fright when it said there was no operating system. 

 

Cool !

Don't forget to mark the solution as solution, Rep counts   

What happens  is that Windows auto assign the first unused letter to removable media at boot, so it got E: for your CDROM reader when you removed  the old drive

[Poinkachu]

49 minutes ago, CottonAz said:

Better yet. Now what should i change the CD-Rom too?

 

 

• Poinkachu

 

 

Sorry couldnt reply in a timely manner back there, was having dinner with my mom.

Thankfully @PDifolco was there to save the day

Glad your problem has been solved.

 

You can change the removable drive to any letter you want it to be btw.