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PJemus
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So i just built my new PC today, and I am trying to format my storage drives. i have a 240gb SSD, a 1tb HDD, and another 150gb HDD. the HDD is an old work one, and so it is partitionsed. i removed the partition and renamed it 'E' drive. my SSD is my boot drive, so it is 'C' drive. i want to now make my 1tb HDD 'D' drive, although the options B (what the 150gb drive was initially), C, D, and E, are not on the list. How can i make 'D' drive appear on the list?

tl;dr: i want the (D:).

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Right click 'Computer' then click on manage.

 

The option to change drive letters is under the Disk Management category...

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You can make that appear by right-clicking the drive whose letter you want to change...

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Right click 'Computer' then click on manage.

 

The option to change drive letters is under the Disk Management category...

d6f2ee1a69.png

 

You can make that appear by right-clicking the drive whose letter you want to change...

... yea m8. i know... 

what i meant was that the letter literally isnt there.

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... yea m8. i know... 

what i meant was that the letter literally isnt there.

 

iirc B: is reserved for a second floppy...

 

D: is automatically assigned to an optical drive if you have one...

 

You can try unplugging all of them, and replugging and reassigning each one... You'd need to reboot each time you assign a drive letter though...

Mutsuki:

CPU: AMD A8 5600K @ 4.2GHz | Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-F2A55M-DS2 (rev. 1.0) | RAM: 2 x Kingston Low Profile 4GB 1333MHz | GPU: Sapphire R7 260X OC 2GB DDR5 2xDVI | HDD0: Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200RPM 3.5" (SATA II) | HDD1: WD Elements (WD Blue 1TB 3.5" SATA II) connected via USB 2.0 | HDD2: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 7200rpm (SATA II) | DVD: Samsung DVD+RW combo drive | PSU: FSP Hexa 600W | Case: Aerocool PGS V | Cooling: DeepCool Gammaxx S40 (stock fan), 2x 120mm Aerocool fan 1xDeepCool 120mm fan from a scrapped heatsink

eMachines D732Z | CPU: Intel Pentium D P6100 | GPU: Intel HD 3000 | RAM: 2x Kingston ValueRAM 2GB 1066MHz SODIMM | HDD: Hitachi 320GB 5600RPM

Acer ES13 | CPU: Intel Pentium N4200 | GPU:  Intel HD 505 | RAM: 1x 4GB (unidentified) DDR3L | HDD: (unidentified) 500GB 5600RPM

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