Drive letter

[moderategamer]

So I just did a fresh install of 7 and I'm going through the laborious task of setting everything back up. Since this is a fresh install my storage drives have all been assigned new letters, this urkes me but not a problem... or so I thought when I went to change the drive letters as I have done many times on previous builds pretty much every letter apart from the one I want has shown up why is this happening !?!

 

I want D BTW

 

 

[Juanse]

If I'm not wrong D: partition will be the system reserved one, and you won't have the option to change. BTW, why do you need that drive so siriously to be drive D:, it's just a denomination thing

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Juanse said:

If I'm not wrong D: partition will be the system reserved one, and you won't have the option to change. BTW, why do you need that drive so siriously to be drive D:, it's just a denomination thing

9 minutes ago, moderategamer said:

So I just did a fresh install of 7 and I'm going through the laborious task of setting everything back up. Since this is a fresh install my storage drives have all been assigned new letters, this urkes me but not a problem... or so I thought when I went to change the drive letters as I have done many times on previous builds pretty much every letter apart from the one I want has shown up why is this happening !?!

 

I want D BTW

 

 

What letter is System Reserved assigned too

[moderategamer]

1 minute ago, Juanse said:

If I'm not wrong D: partition will be the system reserved one, and you won't have the option to change. BTW, why do you need that drive so siriously to be drive D:, it's just a denomination thing

It's always been D... I'm a bit OCD Isn't the system reserved letter C? 

[Juanse]

Just now, moderategamer said:

It's always been D... I'm a bit OCD Isn't the system reserved letter C? 

No, the drive where all the OS is stored is C, the system reserved is the 100Mb partiition that windows will define as D

[moderategamer]

2 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

What letter is System Reserved assigned too

It doesn't have a letter I was just assuming it shares C as it's only a partition.

[moderategamer]

1 minute ago, Juanse said:

No, the drive where all the OS is stored is C, the system reserved is the 100Mb partiition that windows will define as D

It doesn't show a letter I thought it just shared C as it's just a partition? I have the option to change it but it's empty atm.

[Juanse]

1 minute ago, moderategamer said:

It doesn't show a letter I thought it just shared C as it's just a partition? I have the option to change it but it's empty atm.

Yes, idk why it doesn't show in your pc with the letter D, but you can indeed see that in disk 2 you have C: partition and the system reserved partition, that, even though it doesn't show it's identified as D:

[moderategamer]

Just now, Juanse said:

Yes, idk why it doesn't show in your pc with the letter D, but you can indeed see that in disk 2 you have C: partition and the system reserved partition, that, even though it doesn't show it's identified as D:

Awsome thanks for the help.

[moderategamer]

4 minutes ago, Juanse said:

Yes, idk why it doesn't show in your pc with the letter D, but you can indeed see that in disk 2 you have C: partition and the system reserved partition, that, even though it doesn't show it's identified as D:

Nope that didn't help and I'm now pretty certain you're not supposed to assign disk letters to system reserved partitions as it makes the partition show up as a drive in your explorer window deleted it and restared windows everything seems to be fine it did give me a pretty serious looking warning window about how changing the drive letter can f**k up programs etc but I'm sure it's fine lol.

[moderategamer]

24 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

What letter is System Reserved assigned too

 

15 minutes ago, Juanse said:

Yes, idk why it doesn't show in your pc with the letter D, but you can indeed see that in disk 2 you have C: partition and the system reserved partition, that, even though it doesn't show it's identified as D:

Sorry to keep pestering you guys but I thought I'd update you solved the problem my phone had been assigned the letter D but as it was a recognised device was showing as Samsung Galaxy s6 hence why I never realised pretty stupid on my part but hey it's sorted only took half an hour longer than it should have. 

[Drak3]

Just now, Juanse said:

Yes, idk why it doesn't show in your pc with the letter D, but you can indeed see that in disk 2 you have C: partition and the system reserved partition, that, even though it doesn't show it's identified as D:

The system reserved partition isn't assigned a drive letter, and cannot be assigned a drive letter. Drive letters aren't used to identify the drives and partitions at the OS level, it identifies them as volumes, following the disk and partition order. The first disk is identified as disk zero, and the first partition as volume zero. It continues this pattern with all partitions of disk zero, then moves onto disk one's partitions. 

If D: isn't available, it's because another device has been tied to that letter.

Just now, moderategamer said:

It doesn't show a letter I thought it just shared C as it's just a partition? I have the option to change it but it's empty atm.

C: is a different partition than the system reserve. It's entirely possible that a network device or removable device has been tied to D:.

[moderategamer]

1 minute ago, Drak3 said:

The system reserved partition isn't assigned a drive letter, and cannot be assigned a drive letter. Drive letters aren't used to identify the drives and partitions at the OS level, it identifies them as volumes, following the disk and partition order. The first disk is identified as disk zero, and the first partition as volume zero. It continues this pattern with all partitions of disk zero, then moves onto disk one's partitions. 

If D: isn't available, it's because another device has been tied to that letter.

C: is a different partition than the system reserve. It's entirely possible that a network device or removable device has been tied to D:.

Thanks little to late though  sorted it out had my phone plugged in I feel stupid.

[Drak3]

Just now, moderategamer said:

Thanks little to late though  sorted it out had my phone plugged in I feel stupid.

Won't lie, completely forgot that Windows 7 assigns drive letters to phones. I've gotten used to Win10 listing phones and some media players listing them as such.

[moderategamer]

2 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

Won't lie, completely forgot that Windows 7 assigns drive letters to phones. I've gotten used to Win10 listing phones and some media players listing them as such.

I was thinking the same as 7 does display it as a device but secrety assigns it a letter.