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 Gaming 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 Gaming' started by TrevNG, Nov 14, 2023.

  1. TrevNG Win User

    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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    TrevNG, Nov 14, 2023
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  2. LemP Win User

    Optical drive letters keep swapping

    Open Disk Management (click Start, type diskmgmt.msc in the Search box, and press Enter).

    1. In the lower pane, right-click on your optical drive and select "Change drive letter and paths"
    2. Assign Y: to the first optical drive
    3. Repeat step 1 for the second optical drive and assign Z:
     
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    Steps to confirm issue:

    • Secondary drive not visible in Windows Explorer
    • Secondary drive not visible in device manager
    • Secondary drive not visible in disk manager

    Steps to replicate issue:

    • Installing 1909 update

    Steps to resolve issue:

    • Uninstall 1909 update

    Since updates can only be delayed for so long, an actual fix would be appreciated.
     
    Teknophile, Nov 14, 2023
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  4. Lazzer408 Win User

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

    help. USB drive isn't assigned a drive letter.

    Any usb flash drive I plug into my computer isn't assigned a drive letter. The physical drive shows in the "safely remove hardware" but it doesnt show up in disk management. I have tried to populate the volume thru the safely remove hardware properties window and it does pop up in the list but it doesn't stay there. This isn't a format or assign a letter problem. It's more complicated then that. Maybe one of the services needed for usb drive management was disabled? Suggestions needed. btw external usb harddrives work fine.
     
    Lazzer408, Nov 14, 2023
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