How to Change a Drive Letter in Windows 10?

Do you want to change drive letter in your Windows 10 system? It might help you to identify the content inside the drive. Like you can change a drive letter to V which will let you know that the drive contains all video files, or assign a drive letter O which will let you know that it has all your Office files.

But avoid naming any drive letter A and B as they are associated with the floppy disk and an old software may get confused with these letters. Also do not use the letter which is already assigned to the existing other drives of the system.  In the tutorial, we will discuss the method of changing the drive letter in Windows 10 system.

Steps to Change Drive Letter in Windows 10:

Step 1: Type control panel in the Windows search box and click on the Control Panel from the search result.

Step 2: In the Control Panel window you have to click on System and Security to navigate to the disk management.

Step 3: Under System and Security window scroll down and click on Administrative Tools.

Step 4: Further in administrative tools, you have to click on Computer Management which will pop up a new window Computer Management.

Step 5: In the computer management window on the left side of the window you have a navigation menu where you have to click on Disk Management.

Step 6: At the middle of the computer management window all the existing drive will appear, select the drive whose letter you want to change and right-click on the selected drive. From the displayed options you have to click on ‘Change Drive Letter and Path…’
Note: No file of the selected drive must be opened as would not allow changing the letter of the drive if any of its files are in use.

Step 7: A new window ‘Change Drive Letter and Paths’ will pop up. Here you have to click on the Change… button.

Step 8: Again, a new window ‘Change Drive Letter or Path’ will pop up. Here, you have to click the radio button which let you assign a new letter to the selected drive. Further, click the drop-down button and select the letter that you want to assign to your selected drive.

Step 9: A Disk Management window will pop up which will warn you that the program associated with the drive letter may not run properly. But to assign a new letter to the drive you have to click Yes.

So, this is the method to assign a new letter to drive in Windows 10. Hope the information is useful. Keep reading.