▷ How to change drive letter in windows 10

If you have several hard drives and want to customize their letter, in this step by step we show you how to change the drive letter in Windows 10 or any other version of the system. This action is especially useful when we have multiple hard drives or multiple partitions on our computer. Perhaps we will make a mess of the letters that Windows automatically assigns to the storage units, so it is especially useful to define a letter that for example identifies what type of files we have stored in it.

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In Windows 10, we will have at our disposal two simple tools that are natively installed in our system to be able to change the storage drive letter. It is worth commenting on both so you can choose the one that is easiest to use.

Change drive letter in Windows 10 using DiskPart

DiskPart is a command mode tool to format hard drives and create partitions with different formats. One of the utilities that have this command is to be able to change the letter of a storage unit. Let's see how to do this:

To access DiskPart press the key combination " Windows + R " to open the Run tool.

• Then we will have to write in the text box " diskpart " and press Enter. The command prompt will open with the promt configured for the tool we are using.

Every time we write a command we will press Enter to execute it.

list volume

Serves to list storage volumes

select volume

We select the volume whose letter we want to change, for example, " select volume D"

assign letter

we assign the new letter to the unit, for example, “ assign letter S”

It is not recommended to change the letter of the drive where the system is installed

In this simple way, the volume will be named with another letter

Change drive letter in Windows 10 using Disk Manager

Another tool that we will have at our disposal, in this case graphically, will be the Windows disk manager. To carry out this action we will do the following:

• To access the tool we will open the list of options from the start menu by right-clicking on the icon We choose " Disk Management "

• In the main window of the tool we will be able to see a list of the units and underneath a graphic representation of their partitions and space. What we will have to do is right click on the graphic representation of the partition. We choose the option “ Change the letter and paths drive access ”

• In the next window we click on " change " Then we assign the letter we want to the volume Then in the warning window we click on accept if we agree to make the changes.

Rename hard drive

In case you did not know, it is also possible to change the name of a hard disk or partition of our system. This is even easier than the previous procedure:

• We open the file explorer and go to " This computer " or " my computer " depending on the version of Windows that we have. Right-click on the unit that we want to change its name

• Click on " Properties " In the text box at the top we write the name of the unit

• A window will appear requesting administrator permissions to perform this action. We will only have to accept.

Through these two simple applications we can change the drive letter in Windows 10. And in a short time we have also changed the name of our drive.

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