How to give a disk a drive letter
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I have had a new system built but I didn't include any hard drives; I moved them over from my old machine. Everything seems to be good as far as they are concerned. Win10 boots OK off the C: drive; all my other apps open successfully off C:; and my data is available on the D: and E: drives. However, I had a SSD installed in the new machine onto which I intend to transfer the WIN10 image on my current C: drive. However, although the SSD is displayed in the BIOS list of drives and in Computer Management\Device Manager\Disk Drives, it is not displayed as a drive letter in File Explorer. Does anyone know how I can get it recognised by File Explorer?
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I have had a new system built but I didn't include any hard drives; I moved them over from my old machine. Everything seems to be good as far as they are concerned. Win10 boots OK off the C: drive; all my other apps open successfully off C:; and my data is available on the D: and E: drives. However, I had a SSD installed in the new machine onto which I intend to transfer the WIN10 image on my current C: drive. However, although the SSD is displayed in the BIOS list of drives and in Computer Management\Device Manager\Disk Drives, it is not displayed as a drive letter in File Explorer. Does anyone know how I can get it recognised by File Explorer?
I'm not 100% sure that Win10 has the disk management util, but I expect that it would. Here's the steps that work in 7/8 1. Open MMC as admin 2. File -> "Add/Remove Snap-In..." 3. Select "Disk Management" 4. Select the drive 5. Right-click and choose "Change Drive Letters and Paths..." It's pretty self-explanatory at that point.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." - Benjamin Disraeli
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I have had a new system built but I didn't include any hard drives; I moved them over from my old machine. Everything seems to be good as far as they are concerned. Win10 boots OK off the C: drive; all my other apps open successfully off C:; and my data is available on the D: and E: drives. However, I had a SSD installed in the new machine onto which I intend to transfer the WIN10 image on my current C: drive. However, although the SSD is displayed in the BIOS list of drives and in Computer Management\Device Manager\Disk Drives, it is not displayed as a drive letter in File Explorer. Does anyone know how I can get it recognised by File Explorer?
xiecsuk wrote:
I had a SSD installed in the new machine onto which I intend to transfer the WIN10 image on my current C: drive.
You might want to take a look at AOMEI Partition Assistant[^] - it apparently includes a wizard to do precisely that. :)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
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xiecsuk wrote:
I had a SSD installed in the new machine onto which I intend to transfer the WIN10 image on my current C: drive.
You might want to take a look at AOMEI Partition Assistant[^] - it apparently includes a wizard to do precisely that. :)
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined." - Homer
That is exactly what I was intending to use but I have had trouble downloading it. I got the error message “The signature of the file is corrupt or invalid” and it didn't complete the download. I am in contact with AOMEI about it. EDIT AOMEI are telling me that I need to use a browser other than Win Explorer to download it. It downloaded perfectly with Chrome.
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I'm not 100% sure that Win10 has the disk management util, but I expect that it would. Here's the steps that work in 7/8 1. Open MMC as admin 2. File -> "Add/Remove Snap-In..." 3. Select "Disk Management" 4. Select the drive 5. Right-click and choose "Change Drive Letters and Paths..." It's pretty self-explanatory at that point.
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." - Benjamin Disraeli
