How Do I Change Drive Letters

[gregg]

I just bought anew computer and it had an 80 GB hard drive with only one partition so I asked someone to make 5 partitions and he did except the drive letters are a little different than what I am used to.

First partition with Win XP (Home) has a C: drive letter abd then the second, third fourth and fifth has drive letters F: , G: , H: , and I:.

The two CD writers have letters D and E

I prefer to have D: , E: , F: , and G: instead for hard disk and H & I for 2 CD writers.

How do I change them and should I ? I am no expert and I really don’t want to screw up the disk if changing would create more problems.

Thanks

 

[sjonnie]

Right click on "My Computer" and select "manage". In the left hand pane under Computer Management select Storage>Disk Management. Right click on the partition you wish to change and select "Change Drive Letter and Paths...". Select the new drive letter as you wish.

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[HammerBot]

Of course, you cannot select a drive letter that is already in use. So some drives may need to be temporarily assigned an unused letter.

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[gregg]

Thank you guys.
Really appreciate your help.
Regards,
Greg