Changing Drive Letter for USB Ext HD - Parameter is Incorrect


  1. bwkeyboardman
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    Windows 7 64-bit
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    Changing Drive Letter for USB Ext HD - Parameter is Incorrect


    Hi Everyone,

    I have a few external disk drives I'm accessing via USB. When I attempt to change the drive letter using Disk Management I get a popup window that says: "The Parameter is Incorrect."

    These are SATA drives that I previously had assigned drive letters like T, V or X while on a Windows XP computer.

    My OS is Win7-64 and it currently assigns drive letters automatically.

    Any suggestions?

    Thanks!

    ~ BW
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  3. Brink
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    64-bit Windows 11 Pro for Workstations
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    Hello BW, and welcome to Seven Forums.

    You can do OPTION TWO in the tutorial below to be able to change the drive letters in Registry Editor.

    https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...ndows-7-a.html

    Hope this helps,
    Shawn
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