Changing Drive Letters Issue

[davidrosen]

I just had to reinstall Windows 10 on a new SSD drive after a failure of my C:

I still have things on multiple other drives that are organized a specific way, but after the new installation my drive letters are all wrong.

I know how to go into Disk Manager to change drive letters but when I do it is SO slow. I'm not even sure if it's going. The whole thing just hangs on trying to change letters.

Is there a better way? A way that's smoother and faster? Maybe from safe mode or a command prompt or something?

 

[USAFRet]

Inside Disk Management is the way to do it.

Being slow is a whole different problem.
Possibly in safe mode, so that you're sure of not trying to use any resources that live on these other drives.

 

[jsmithepa]

Slow? It should be instantaneous.

Ya, try safe mode.

The trick is, do it while system is not doing anything else, completely idle, then once is done, seconds, reboot. If u have tons of crap auto-loaded at boot, maybe those things are having a LOCK on drives in question, must make sure those things are not running.

 

[davidrosen]

yeah my computer definitely is having issues haha... it takes 15-20 minutes. and booting does too. brand new windows install. not much installed/running. gonna start disconnecting drives soon. pain in the butt.

 

[jsmithepa]

HD maybe dying, or Ram starved/ram leak.