Jack McCabe wants Windows to identify his data drive as D:, but D: is already taken. We were using drive letters before DOS, and I’m surprised we’re still using them. Everyone knows that C: is the ...

Anytime you connect an external hard drive to a PC, the computer assigns it a drive letter that enables computer programs -- and you -- to identify it. By default, Windows usually assigns specific ...

I don't have a clue what forum to post this in, so I'll do it here, mods are free to move it if necessary.<P>I cleared my primary partition on my drive to make a new one to replace it on a drive with ...

No. You can't change the drive letter assignments for Hard drive partitions. Windows does it automatically. Windows assigns drive letters in this order:<P>1 - Primary IDE channel, master drive, ...

You may want to change the drive letters Windows 8 assigns to the external hard drives you use for your business if you need to manage drive letters or do not like the letters assigned. For example, ...