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What is important to know
In addition to the name that the user can set, Windows assigns a Latin letter from A to Z to all physical and virtual drives, as well as their sections. This applies to hard drives, SSDs, USB flash drives, SD cards and other types of drives.
The OS assigns letters in order. Historically, the letters A and B were reserved for floppy drives, and C for the system partition. Therefore, all new drives and partitions are given letters from E to Z.
All drives except C are allowed to set any free letter. Technically, the system partition letter can also be changed, but it is better not to do this. The fact is that the files of installed programs and system components are registered in the registry with a binding to a letter and after changing it they will not be able to work correctly. The same applies to other additional drives on which you have applications and games installed. It is better not to touch their names.
If the computer does not have floppy drives, you can also use the letters A and B. However, the system itself will tell you which of them are free, and simply will not allow you to assign an already occupied one.
How to change the drive letter in Windows 10 through Disk Management
For example, let's reassign the drive letter E. Let's take advantage of the fact that the letter A is not occupied and assign it. As a bonus, the drive letter will not change every time you connect.
Open the Run dialog by pressing Win + R, type diskmgmt.msc and press Enter.
Find the desired disk or partition, guided by the name or size. Right-click on the flash drive and select “Change Drive Letter or Drive Path…”.
Select the current character and click Edit.
Specify a new letter and click OK.
Confirm the action by clicking Yes.
How to change the drive letter in Windows 10 via the command line
Open search and start typing “command prompt”. When the utility is found, click “Run as administrator”.
Type diskpart and press Enter.
Command list volume display a list of disks and find the one you need.
Type select volume X , but instead of X, substitute the current letter of the desired drive. In our example, this is E.
Use the assign letter=Y command to assign a new letter, substituting the desired letter for Y. We will have it A.
