Windows 10: How to swap letters between disk drives Primary and secondary drive?

Discus and support How to swap letters between disk drives Primary and secondary drive? in Windows 10 Software and Apps to solve the problem; Hello. I need some help with my windows and drives. In total I have now 3 drives. C:, B:, and E:. The B: drive is the one I installed today. It is an... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Software and Apps' started by TrevNG, Nov 14, 2023.

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    How to swap letters between disk drives Primary and secondary drive?


    Hello. I need some help with my windows and drives. In total I have now 3 drives. C:, B:, and E:. The B: drive is the one I installed today. It is an M.2 4TB SSD. After I installed it, I created a GPT partition which worked fine. I then used AOMEI Backupper, to copy all the files from my primary C: SSD to the new M.2 B: SSD. This was a success aswell. Now my problem is, I want to exchange the letters between B: and C:. So that I can use my M.2. SSD as C: and my primary drive. How can I change the disk drive letters? Disk Management won't let me do that obviously because you can't change th

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