Assigining letter to drive permanently

[trylo]

Hi guys!

 

I moved from Mac to Windows, so I haven't had that problem before as I was giving individual names to my drives and in Mac that was enough.

In Windows no matter what name I give the letter drive gets is the first one available and as I have multiple drives that I put in and out my programs have difficulties finding files (ie. Premiere or Lightroom).

Is there a way to assign a letter for good to a drive in Windows 8?

 

Thank you in advance for all the help!

Andy

[Scia]

You'll be able to change than in the disk management.

Rightclick your "Computer" icon and chose "Administrative Tools" [think that's what it's called in english, it's the only option that requires admin] and you will be able to format drives and assign them to any letter from A-Z that is not yet taken ^^

Hope that helped.

[Lyons]

Search for and open disk management and open 'create and format hard disk partitions', right click the drive you want to assign a letter to and click 'change letter and paths...', click change, change it to whatever you want, hit ok. Done.

[bartekxx12]

^ That, and you can also name drives in Windows...

[Hazy125]

See, I would have started by saying 'right click on cmd and run as administrator'... Why do I try to make things so difficult

[trylo]

Search for and open disk management and open 'create and format hard disk partitions', right click the drive you want to assign a letter to and click 'change letter and paths...', click change, change it to whatever you want, hit ok. Done.

 

OK, maybe I wasn't clear enough

The drives are removable, so even if I change the letter after I take it out and put a new one I am ending up with a different drive with the same letter.

 

How can I assign permanently a letter to drive that it stays with it even if I remove it?

[LogicalDrm]

I'm having kind of same problem. I have two backup drives which are hibernating (=off) when not used. When one spins back up it takes last available letter. It was bit confusing. And then all them usb sticks.

[trylo]

So there is no solution for this?

[dharmadrummer]

See, I would have started by saying 'right click on cmd and run as administrator'... Why do I try to make things so difficult

Because using a command shell is faster if you know what you are doing.

[Hazy125]

Because using a command shell is faster if you know what you are doing.

Definitely

@trylo nope, windows will automatically assign a new drive letter to it if you put it into a different machine based on the current drive letters being used in the new machine