It will be “Create and format hard disk partitions.” Note: The program name displayed in the search will not be Disk Management. Click the Start button, type “Disk Management” in the search bar, and then hit Enter. Partitions without drive letters will not appear in File Explorer and elsewhere.) How to Change a Drive LetterĬhanging a drive letter is pretty simple. (However, you do not have to assign a letter to each partition. If a disk has just a single partition, it will just have a single letter pointing to that partition. If you have multiple partitions on a single disk, you will need to assign a letter to each partition to make them all accessible. Note: Technically speaking, while they are commonly called drive letters, each letter actually refers to a partition on a disk. Even if it were able to boot, there would be a huge number of programs that would not be able to run. Changing C:\ to another letter is likely to result in severe issues, like a PC that cannot boot into Windows at all. Warning: It is possible to change the boot drive letter to something else, but we don’t recommend it. You’ll have to manually set the default apps associated with files to fix file associations if they were broken by changing the drive letter. Unfortunately, Windows isn’t as good about updating file associations.
Most of your applications’ shortcuts will probably be automatically corrected. Windows has gotten pretty smart about updating shortcuts so that programs work after changing a drive letter.
Changing a drive letter after programs are installed could break them since there will be references to an installation location that is no longer there. If you want to change a drive letter, you should do it before you install anything on the drive. Windows assigns drive letters alphabetically - starting with C - when they’re initialized. How to Fix Programs Broken By Changing a Drive Letter
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