Changing removeable hard drive letter assignment

blackhawk

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I have two computers and removeable hard drives as well as main drives and have one portable that I assigned drive F to. Its recognized in both computers however I've just gotten another hard drive that I installed in the other removeable drive but it takes over D in that one.

How do I change it? Its a used drive and has been formatted already. Do I need to fdisk it?
 

SUOrangeman

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What OS? If Win9x, youu can go into the device manager, go the the properties for the drive, and change the letter. In NT/2000 go into Disk Administrator(NT) or Computer Management->Disk Management (or something like that when in Win2K).

-SUO
 

blackhawk

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it's win98se but the properties in device manager for the removeable, or the main hard drive, are not accessible, just listed

i've changed cdrom letters thru device manager but think I have to go through fdisk for the hard drive

correct me if i'm wrong