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How to force assign drive letter

Judahnator
By Judahnator
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I finally got tired of dealing with my 30GB boot drive, so i cloned the drive to a HDD in my system (drive D:). All the data on that drive was copied to a partition on another drive (assigned the letter I:). Now many of my programs are broke, because they are looking for a D, when that was changed to I:

 

I looked in disk management, but it skips the option for assigning it "D." It just lists off a,b,f,g,h... Is there any way to force windows to accept it as "D," or do i need to reinstall all my programs to "I?"

 

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~Judah

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It means something plugged in is still assigned to D:

Find it and clear it.

Go forth and maximize profits.

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... It doesn't want the D? Could it be the order of the SATA ports?

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you need to remove the D:\ path from the other drive first then you can assigne D:\ to the new drive.  Open disk management then right click on the partition that is currently D:\ then select change path and drive letter.  Click on D:\ then hit remove.  You can then assign D:\ to the new drive.

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Disable/unplug the other drive is using that letter and asign it to that one that you want to be D:, then able/plug it again

 

It was fun finding what was taking the "D", i unplugged almost every SATA device and reseated half of my system. Turns out it was an external DVD drive hanging from a rear port

~Judah

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