This article tells what drive letter is and how to deal with multiple drive letter chaos problem.
Drive letter is identifier of disk storage rig inDOSand WINDOWS systems.
Drive letter is usually indentified by 26 English characters plus colon :.
Size of early floppy drive includes 8 inch, 5 inch, 3.5 inch and so on.
English letter used to refer to harddisk partitionstarts from letter C: to letter Z:.
What should you do to deal with this phenomenon?
I believe the following methods provided in this article will help you a lot.
In this way, harddisk driveletter will be arranged according to master-salve disk partition sequence.
Then drive letter of the slave disk will rank behind that of master disk in order.
Win 9x
Using Letter Assigner
Using Letter Assigner can specify any hard drive letter.
Then you’re able to perform saving file command and restart computer.
In general, system drive letter cant be changed, or it may cause system boot error.
When you modify system drive letter, Letter Assigner will pop up a prompt window.
you could click Start Run and enter diskmgmt.msc to start Disk Management.
Then lets take a stab at modify drive letter together.
Then you should choose Change Drive Letter and Paths option.
Or the system cant boot.
Step 2, you might press Change in the pop-up Change Drive Letter and Paths dialog box.
In the next window, you should specify a new drive letter for this hard drive.
After you finish adjusting, you should press File Save to store the controls.
And then you should restart computer.
You should notice that Letter Assigner cant achieve modifying Windowssystem partition.
When you perform improper adjustment, Letter Assigner will pop up warning message to remind you.
At this time, you shouldnt continue changing drive letter.
UsingPartition Magic
Using Partition Magic can realize repartitioning hard disk,formatting hard disk,copying partitionand other operations.
Then you may click OK button and select General Apply command.
Finally, you should restart computer according to the prompts.
The second disk should be installed after finishing installing Windows 2000/XP.
Whats worse, its permanent.
Even if you remove the second hard disk, this problem cant be solved.
However, we can enter Control Panel Administrative Tools Computer Management window and select Disk Management under Computer Management.
Then you’re able to right nudge the appropriate partition and perform Change Drive Letter and Paths command.
You should click Change button and re-assign a drive letter.
Then it’s possible for you to repeat this command on other partitions.
(2)Windows 9x/Me
There is a simple way to solve drive letter chaos problem in Windows 9x/Me.
The drive letter chaos phenomenon doesnt exist any longer.
Of course, the second hard disk cant be seen in pure DOS mode.
Next, pick the second disk and delete all partitions on it.
Then you should choose Create Extended DOS Partition to assign all space toextended partition.
You should partition again, thats to say, you should create extended partition rather thanprimary partition.
Finally, you could format the partition.
First, you should open Control Panel in Windows system and double click System icon.
In pop-up System Properties interface, you should click Hardware and then click gadget Manager option.
Next, you should open DVD/CD-ROM drives item.
Then you should choose the physical drive on which drive letter is disordered.
Next, you could right click this physical drive and perform Properties command in the pop-up shortcut menu.
After finishing the above controls, you should click OK to exit property setting interface.
The physical drive letter will not be disordered after you reset your machine.
2.Drive Letter Missing
Drive letter missingphenomenon appears because computer installed with Windows 98 OS needs drive program.
Then you may open My Computer and find there is no USB flash disk drive letter in it.
The problem is still not solved though you replace the USB interface.
Therefore, we enter USB flash disk drive letter in the address bar of Explorer window.
Is this drive letter restricted?
Solving method: you should right click My Computer and select Manage in the pop-up shortcut menu.
After entering Computer Management window, you should open Storage/Removable Storage and then click Disk Management.
You will see that the state of USB flash disk is Healthy at the right side of Window.
This indicates that there is no problem with USB flash disk.
you’re free to exit Computer Management interface after clicking OK.
When you start your machine, USB flash disk drive letter appears again.
And the problem is solved successfully.
