Tuesday, September 13, 2011

How do i make an external hard drive appear as F: drive instead of E: drive?

i have about 10 thousand songs on my external linked to my itunes and somehow it recently changed it's directory from E to F so itunes can't locate any of the songs on it. does anyone know how to undo/reverse that?How do i make an external hard drive appear as F: drive instead of E: drive?
Hi. Here is how MS says to change it. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307844How do i make an external hard drive appear as F: drive instead of E: drive?
Go into the Computer Management interface. If you tell us which OS you're using we can tell you how to get there.
Right Click on My Computer, select manage or press Start, Control Panel, Performance %26amp; Maintenance, Administrative Tools and Computer Management (if you use Classic Style, skip Performance %26amp; Maintenance). In Computer Management select Disk Management. You will see all your drives. To change right click on F: (if it is a CD Drive, CD Drives picture will be shown) select ';Change Drive Letter and Paths';. Press Change and select another alphabet like G. You can skip this part if you don檛 have any F:\. If you want the CD to be E:, change the drive letter of the drive again, this time you will get E:.

Then right click E: and change the drive letter just like above and this time select F: And that's it.
go to your administrative menu / disk management.



find the drive or logical partition that you want to change, right click on it, then select ';change drive letter';, you can change it to any letter B-Z that is not already in use.
Yes, iTunes is a pain that way. If you're using XP, it's very easy to fix. Just plug the drive in and go to Control Panel -%26gt; Administrative Tools -%26gt; Computer Management -%26gt; Storage -%26gt; Disk Management (Local). Right-click the big rectangle that signifies the drive, and choose ';Change Drive Letter and Paths';. This will give you a list of unassigned drive letters that you can assign to the drive. The assignment will be remembered each time you attach it.

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