Disk Management - Change Disk Numbering?

[CC268]

Hey guys,

 

See attached photo. I just installed a 1TB NVME M.2 SSD as well as a 500GB SSD. I was hoping to make the 1TB NVME my 'D' Drive (Disk 1) and the 500GB SSD my 'E' Drive (Disk 2). However, when I installed the 500GB SSD it automatically made itself Disk 1. Is there a way to change it to Disk 2?

 

Thanks.

 

[schwellmo92]

Whether it is marked as "Disk 1" or "Disk 2" has no correlation to what drive letter can be mapped to it. Your 1TB drive is mapped as D (which is what you wanted), and the 500GB drive is currently not mapped, so you can map it to E (like you also wanted), and then be done with it. I am failing to see the problem here.

[Zmax]

To change drive lettering go to Disk management

Right click on drive for drop menu

Change Drive letter and path

 

C will always be C

[Zmax]

You just move the lettering around until you have the order you want

 

Page 1 32 of owner manual will give the order of the Sata connections  Please refer to your manual

 

Ex  :

 

If you move your drives around. I would reformat all the drives and do a clean Install of Windows. The reason is that program will try to find stuff on the wrong drive. If you only change the lettering , you may have to format the new drive, and not C

 

So in conclusion be sure that you have copy of info you want to keep before doing anything. This will take a lot of time to do. Be sure before you start.

[Zmax]

One thing I would like to mention. Is the way the drive are seen.

 

In Disk Management . The Drive are seen by the way they are connected to the MB .

 

In Windows File Explorer the drive are seen by the letter they have.

 

Depending on what is important to you . You have 2 options or you could change both

 

Of course I could be wrong lol

[CC268]

1 hour ago, schwellmo92 said:

Whether it is marked as "Disk 1" or "Disk 2" has no correlation to what drive letter can be mapped to it. Your 1TB drive is mapped as D (which is what you wanted), and the 500GB drive is currently not mapped, so you can map it to E (like you also wanted), and then be done with it. I am failing to see the problem here.

 

Yea I gotcha...makes sense now thanks 

[CC268]

1 hour ago, Alexsolo said:

You can remove drive letters from everything but the C drive and then label them according to your preferences. 

 

Disk 1, 2, 3 is in reference to the SATA port they are using if I'm not mistaken.

The NVME drive was Disk 1 though when I first installed it. Then I added the other SSD and it became Disk 2. Like everyone is saying though I guess it doesn’t matter since I can assign the drive letter I want.