Virtual drive letters: Deassign/reassign seemingly important ones?


  1. mark99k
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    Windows 7 Professional 32 bit
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    Virtual drive letters: Deassign/reassign seemingly important ones?


    Got a brand new PC with way more bells & whistles than I'd expected. I'm the sort that assigns a LOT of virtual drive letters. Some are mapped network locations, but most are SUBSTed to folders I use often. The new PC has assigned drives E thru H, which are letters I'd prefer to use for my own purposes, to:

    SD/mini-MMC/RS (drive E)
    CF/MD (drive F)
    SM/xD (drive G)
    MS/Pro/Duo (drive H)

    I understand I might want to use these later in life, but for now I'd like to reclaim them. Is there a way to do that? And if there is, will there be a way to *undo* it later? Thanks so much for any help.

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  3. Hipster Doofus
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    As long as you have not installed programs that may need to refer to those devices you should be OK.

    Control Panel/Admin Tools/Computer Management/Storage/Disk Management. You can change drive letters in there.

    https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...ndows-7-a.html
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  4. mark99k
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    Thank you for the quick and helpful reply, HD.
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