Questions tagged [drive-letter]
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What is the cmd.exe command to determine the last mounted drive letter on Windows 11?
I'm trying to be able to determine on the command line (so that I can do it from my scripting language) the drive letter for the last mounted drive on Windows 11.
Up until recently, I have used the ...
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Volume linked to a disconnected network drive can be remvoed but reappears on machine reboot
I have the same issue as described in in this question, namely that my machine has a disconnected network drive in my mapped drives. Running mountvol [DRIVE-LETTER]: /D successfully removes the ...
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Windows 10 does not recognise second external hard drive
After a RAID drive failure I am left with two identical 500GB SSD 2.5" drives which appear to be in good working order (fortunately I've recovered my data from the RAID drives). I have bought two ...
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Drive Letter and multiple drives
I have multiple drives with different types of files on them. I need to swap them in and out of my computer from time to time.
My question is will I benefit from setting specific drive letters on each ...
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Drive letters are not available in "Change Drive Letter and Paths"
My semi-permanent USB drive died, so I copied all the files to a replacement. Now I would like to assign the new drive the same drive letter as the old, so I don't have to change the path in every ...
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How do I run Windows 10 from the E-drive?
What I did:
I have a multi-boot system, where I started with Windows 7, then added Win8.1, then Win10 and then Linux.
I do this because I want to. And because sometimes I want to test applications on ...
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Which conditions/factors cause this "The old drive letter will not be available for assignment until you restart" warning to appear?
On my Windows 10 laptop, I sometimes need to change the letter of my external hard drives in Disk Management. Sometimes, but not always, I see the warning in Disk Management:
If you continue, the new ...
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How to remove a volume that is linked to a disconnected network drive
I have a disconnected network drive that is linked to a volume (N:). It used to be linked to an NFS share on 127.0.0.1\data (using WinNFSd), but I didn't need it anymore.
I am trying to remove it, ...
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Windows File Explorer won't show certain drive letters
Title says it,
The missing/hidden drive letter was G:/
I'd tried all possible cause of the issue, The drive letter was first used by GoogleDriveFS, but since I've moved it to Z:/ Now Now if I insert a ...
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Finding a disk drive missing after a routine Windows 10 update
I just installed the latest Windows 10 update on my laptop, and my D: drive has disappeared. This is an internal hard drive where my Desktop, Downloads, and Documents drives all live, along with ...
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"DOS Devices" to directory (aka permanent SUBST) not honored after Windows 21H1 update
Previously, a device mapping had been established using HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\DOS Devices to add an alias from D:\ to C:\Build. This approach discussed in ...
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Know when drive mounts but without a drive letter
I have some external drives for which I've not assigned a drive letter but, instead, have let Windows 10 create a shortcut for that drive. If I plug in the drive and wait a few moments, I can then ...
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How to change a drive letter that has Program Files
I have a small SSD C:\ drive and therefore have installed most of my programs on a second drive D:. I now want to replace that platter drive with an M.2 SSD for improved performance. I have cloned ...
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Windows 10 reassigns drive letters on reboot
Through being forced to for a software program my company uses, I recently switched from Windows 7 to Windows 10. Now, every time I reboot, my computer decides to assign letters E, F, G, and H with ...
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Assigning a Windows drive letter to a removable media brings a "Specified file cannot be found" error
I seem to be the only one over the planet to get this problem, as I spent 1,5 hours to find a solution and I couldn't even find a question...
One of my Sandisk SD Card has a strange behaviour. It's ...
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Windows 10, SSD and SATA hard drive letters missing from Windows Explorer
Symptoms :
All hard drives are accessible. Everything looks fine in Directory Opus.
But in Windows Explorer, and in the system windows that open with actions such as File>Open, File>Save As, ...
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Windows: Swap Drive letters between disks
I currently have 2 drives that I want to swap the drive letters of: D and F. I have a bunch of programs installed on D but I plan on taking out the drive in the near future so I've copied all of the ...
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How to move Windows, Program Files and etc folders from D to C?
I have a machine, which has Windows, Program Files, User folders located on drive D. Is it possible to move everything to drive letter C without reinstal?
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Using excel to organize an alphanumeric list
How do I get the following list in order alphabetically, and then by numerical values on an excel sheet? CV1, CV2, CX1, CX10, CX2, CX3, CX20, CX4, CX30.
Final order should be: CV1, CV2, CX1, CX2, CX3, ...
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Back up from Multiple Sources
I have several separate copies of my OS volume taken over various points in time, but now want to set up a cleaner, scheduled backup strategy. I could simply start regularly backing up the current ...
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Damaged Sd card
My sd card was damaged and it asked me to format. A year ago the same thing happened and I format the card and recover the data by recovering software.
But now I did wrong by removing the drive letter ...
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Problems because of HDD drive letter changed
The laptop is booting from the new SSD. But all my apps are on the HDD. After adding the new SSD, the drive letters of the HDD were changed. Now when I try to run an application that is on the HDD, it ...
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Assigned drive letters vary on WIN 7/ WIN 10 dual boot
I recently created a dual boot system with WIN 7 & WIN 10 (both operating systems are on separate physical drives), but have noticed that the drive letters that are assigned to the various ...
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How do I get the drive label from the drive letter in Windows 10 in cmd.exe?
I truly cannot believe I have to ask this, but after searching countless times and finding nothing online on how to do this, I must ask.
I already know about the "label" command. While it does output ...
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Mount USB flash drive or external hard drive on Windows as drive letter A: or B:?
Is there any way to get Windows to assign drive letter A: or B: (instead of D: or a subsequent letter) to a connected USB flash drive or external hard drive?
(This is purely for nostalgia purposes, ...
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How to limit Drive Letters Windows assigns to new removable USB drives
Currently Windows (all of the versions) assigns the first available letter to the next removable media you insert into your USB drive. Is there a way to go around this to make Windows assign only ...
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Assign a permanent drive letter across different computers
I'm creating a USB drive that includes several shortcuts to files within the same USB to save space and avoid duplicate files.
Obviously for this to work, it requires the letter of the drive to ...
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Remove a phantom drive letter
Recently, I plugged a friend's external hard drive on my laptop. Because it didn't show up, I had to manually assign it a drive letter using the disk management in Windows 10.
But now I unplugged it, ...
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Why isn't my partition appearing?
I have a partition on my system drive that appears in Computer Management → Storage → Disk Management, but not under This PC → Devices and Drives in File Explorer.
Why isn't my partition appearing in ...
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Partition recognized, volume not
On a Windows 7 machine, the internal hard drive is splitted into three partitions. Two of them work just fine, but the third one is not visible in the explorer.
In diskpart, list partition shows all ...
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How do I stop my C drive appearing also as D on Windows 10 file explorer?
Am running Windows 10 Pro v1803. At some point a mysterious clone of my C drive showed up as D. This is an SSD. The drive letter doesn't appear in DISKPART. Nor does it show in Disk management console....
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Drive letter lost after unplug
I have to manually assign drive letter whenever I connect my WD Element to my PC (W10). The external hdd has 2 partitions (FAT32 + NTFS) and I have to do this for both of them. Is there any way to ...
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How to make sure Windows (7) does update names of drives?
The issue: I have two network drives set up, that are however not always connected. When they are not connected, and I connect a usb drive or insert an sd card, often these drives/cards will not show ...
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Windows XP: Hard drive is called letter "H:" instead of "C:"
I recently installed Windows XP Pro SP3 on an old PC. Everything seemed fine except for the fact that the 1 TB hard drive that I installed it to is called "H:" instead of "C:," like it usually is on ...
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How to change BCD internal drive letter assignment
As you know, the following values can be changed by using BCDEDIT:
device partition=E:
osdevice partition=E:
But question is that how did BCD name a certain volume (e.g. E: above) and how can it ...
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Preserve drive letters when installing Windows 7
If you start installing Windows 7 on drive D: from within Windows XP, you see correct drive letters after installation, i.e. XP on C: and 7 on D:. However, if you boot from a DVD and install it, you ...
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Changing default location to applications installed on hardware after changing its assigned letter
I got new work machine at my job with two hard drives but the assignment of letters is terrible. C:/ is normal D:/ is for DVD-RW and F:/ is for second HDD. I wanted to change it to standard C: D: E: ...
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Windows: "This operation has been cancelled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator."
Since a few months I'm having an annoying problem with my Windows 10 installation.
I can't simply open drives (either HDD or USB ones) labelled with the letters J: and K: from the File Explorer.
When ...
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Redirected Drive Assignment
In DOS there was a command that would allow you to redirect drives to another letter, for example:
ASSIGN D: = C:
This would allow apps looking at C:\ to be direct to D:\. Is this possible in ...
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Permanent Windows drive letters not permanent?
For my laptop I have an external hard disk and a DVD drive which is in the docking station.
With the disk management I clearly set the letter D for the external harddrive and E for the DVD drive.
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I have two external drives on a server, but I cannot assign volume letters to them using DISKPART
I have two external drives plugged into a server, used for backups. The concern that I am trying to alleviate is that these drives keep switching volume letters on restart, or if some other storage ...
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Finding out the drive letters previously used by my PC
My PC was disconnected from main power over night and it seems that the BIOS has lost information about the drives. It was unable to boot, so I had to enter the BIOS first and select the boot drive. ...
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Trying to launch HTML web gallery from a pen drive, don't know drive letter [duplicate]
I am trying to autorun a fairly simple HTML photo gallery from a pen drive to give to clients. Clearly I don't know what drive letter is going to be assigned to the drive in any particular pc.
How do ...
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how to make a bat file on usb?
I want to make a batch file that open multiple programs like setuping drivers
like this one
cd\
D: (the usb drive letter )
start sound driver.exe
start tochpad driver.exe
Just from opening the ...
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Reference USB without drive letter
My clients have a program which is housed on a flash drive. I'd like to send out an update (MSI or EXE) that erases one file on the drive and replaces it with another.
On Mac, this is easy since all ...
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batch file prompt drive letter
I've been working on this simple batch in windows 7, it has a drive letter set to delete all files and folders within. And if the drive wasn't mounted, it should prompt the user to enter one, here:
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Why does Windows rename my library to the drive letter?
As many others, I use custom locations for my windows libraries because my OS is on a small SSD. Downloads, Music and Pictures are all stored in folders on D:. My Video library however, has an entire ...
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Windows 10: make drive letter unavailable
On my Windows 10 system I have the following drive letters assigned:C:\ SSD (The system drive)D:\ HDD (has junction from C:\Users)E:\ Blu-Ray optical driveF:\ DVD optical driveG:\ external HDDI:\ ...
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Change drive letter of disconnected (reserved) device?
First off, I've done this before so I know it is possible. The problem is I just can't recall HOW I did it before.
Basically, I reinstalled Windows 10. Before doing so, it was working well and it was ...
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Fix invalid link targets after changing drive letter of 'Program Files' folder
I have a second Program Files directory on another partition because I can't store all of them on my SSD. So the default location is C:\Program Files, but some programs I'm not using too often were ...
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