Renaming USB drive

When I plug in my USB drive to my desktop, Windows names is K:\. I would
like to reassign it as E:\ because when I use the drive on my laptop and
work computer it is named E:\ and I have a load of hyperlinks beginning
E:\. Can anyone tell me how I can do this? I do not have any other drive
at present which is called E:\ on my desktop.

Thanks

On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 14:55:13 +0100, Hc wrote:

When I plug in my USB drive to my desktop, Windows names is K:\. I would
like to reassign it as E:\ because when I use the drive on my laptop and
work computer it is named E:\ and I have a load of hyperlinks beginning
E:\. Can anyone tell me how I can do this? I do not have any other drive
at present which is called E:\ on my desktop.

Thanks

Navigate to disk management, select the USB drive by existing drive
letter and change the drive letter to a free one.

On 24/10/2015 15:39, dave61430 wrote:
On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 14:55:13 +0100, Hc wrote:

When I plug in my USB drive to my desktop, Windows names is K:\. I would
like to reassign it as E:\ because when I use the drive on my laptop and
work computer it is named E:\ and I have a load of hyperlinks beginning
E:\. Can anyone tell me how I can do this? I do not have any other drive
at present which is called E:\ on my desktop.

Thanks

Navigate to disk management, select the USB drive by existing drive
letter and change the drive letter to a free one.


Thank you.

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On 24/10/2015 15:39, dave61430 wrote:
On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 14:55:13 +0100, Hc wrote:

When I plug in my USB drive to my desktop, Windows names is K:\. I would
like to reassign it as E:\ because when I use the drive on my laptop and
work computer it is named E:\ and I have a load of hyperlinks beginning
E:\. Can anyone tell me how I can do this? I do not have any other drive
at present which is called E:\ on my desktop.

Thanks

Navigate to disk management, select the USB drive by existing drive
letter and change the drive letter to a free one.


Thank you.

You may have to do it for every different usb port you plug it into
until you've done them all. Least I've always had to for thumbdrives and
portables I connect to one of two front usb ports on my pc. Set it up
for the one and then use the other port and I must set it up for that
port also. I assume if I connected them to the usb ports on the back I'd
also have to repeat same procedure.

Once done though, it's nice Windows remembers and reuses same drive
letter. Unsure what happens if the letter is already being used by
something else, e.g. it gets assigned a different letter or does it
confiscate the letter instead leaving whatever was using it where
exactly?

Hc wrote:
When I plug in my USB drive to my desktop, Windows names is K:\. I would
like to reassign it as E:\ because when I use the drive on my laptop and
work computer it is named E:\ and I have a load of hyperlinks beginning
E:\. Can anyone tell me how I can do this? I do not have any other drive
at present which is called E:\ on my desktop.

Thanks

There are tools you can use for more complicated
situations.

"USB Drive Letter Manager"
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html

If you have a card reader, it can use up four drive letters,
even when the card reader has no media in it. I think there is
some registry key to stop the card reader from using drive
letters when not needed. If you want E: and cannot get it,
that's a reason why. E: could be in usage by a USB card reader.

Paul

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Hc wrote:
When I plug in my USB drive to my desktop, Windows names is K:\. I would
like to reassign it as E:\ because when I use the drive on my laptop and
work computer it is named E:\ and I have a load of hyperlinks beginning
E:\. Can anyone tell me how I can do this? I do not have any other drive
at present which is called E:\ on my desktop.

Thanks

There are tools you can use for more complicated
situations.

"USB Drive Letter Manager"
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html

If you have a card reader, it can use up four drive letters,
even when the card reader has no media in it. I think there is
some registry key to stop the card reader from using drive
letters when not needed. If you want E: and cannot get it,
that's a reason why. E: could be in usage by a USB card reader.

Paul

You can do the same for card readers. I use Disk Management and make
them W,X,Y & Z and because it's always using the same port that only
needs to be done the once.

I basically use a little scheme for what letters get assigned to what
devices. All get their own unique letter assigned and that's across 7
external/portables and a few thumbdrives. I sometimes have only one/two
letters not used if/when I connect to some network share.

On Sat, 24 Oct 2015 12:26:29 -0300, pjp
wrote:

You may have to do it for every different usb port you plug it into
until you've done them all. Least I've always had to for thumbdrives and
portables I connect to one of two front usb ports on my pc. Set it up
for the one and then use the other port and I must set it up for that
port also. I assume if I connected them to the usb ports on the back I'd
also have to repeat same procedure.

Once done though, it's nice Windows remembers and reuses same drive
letter. Unsure what happens if the letter is already being used by
something else, e.g. it gets assigned a different letter or does it
confiscate the letter instead leaving whatever was using it where
exactly?

In my experience, it'll simply find an unused drive letter and use that. It
won't steal a drive letter from an active drive.

--

Char Jackson

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I basically use a little scheme for what letters get assigned to what
devices. All get their own unique letter assigned and that's across 7
external/portables and a few thumbdrives. I sometimes have only one/two
letters not used if/when I connect to some network share.

Exactly: thus
B = all thumb drives
P = portable HDD
U = upper DVD drive (when there are two)
L = lower, and so on.
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)