A lot of people have asked this question in computers forums and Yahoo Answers etc regarding if changing a drive’s letter in Windows XP is possible and if yes then how to achieve this. Well the answer is simle, yes it is possible to change a drive’s letter in Windows XP and this can be done quite easily.Click on the Start Button and Click on Run (or you can use the keyboard shortcut Windows Key + R, if you have missed our post on windows shortcuts make sure you check it out here)
Now type compmgmt.msc and press Enter
A new window with title Computer Management should open.
Double Click on Storage from the list on the right or you can click it on the tree on the left
Now Double Click on Disk Management from the list on the right or you can click it on the tree on the left
Now you get to see all the drives and partitions listed out in the window.
Right Click on the Drive or Partition and click on Change Drive Letter and Paths (In our case we are changing the drive letter of our DVD RW drive from G to K)
Click on Change Button
Assign a new drive letter using the drop down and click on OK
You get a warning confirmation regarding changing drive letter. Click on Yes
That’s it the drive letter is now changed..
So that was it. We hope we made it simple.. Comments ? Feedback ? Appreciation ? Write below.. Thanks
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I have purchased an Asus PX20 running XP Home. For some reason the WINXP drive is “C” and the local drive is “D”Many programs default to “C” drive and are unstable and in many cases are unable to run correctly. The information above does NOT work when trying to change drive letters as the following error comes up.
“WINDOWS CANNOT MODIFY THE DRIVE LETTER OF YOUR SYSTEM VOLUME OR BOOT VOLUME”
Any comments would be appreciated.
Hello Mike,
Thanks for reading our blog. Well first of all the above tutorial can not be implemented on changing the letter of the drive in which the current windows xp is installed.
I didn’t get your doubt exactly, If you can tell me more precisely about what you mean by local drive, U mean D drive is the primary hard disk and C drive is on network or removable media?, perhaps I can do something to help you out if you can state your problem clearly