Drive D: not available

[Traxan]

I bit the bullet and went to Win10 on a Intel 750 SSD. Everything is fine with one problem. My second drive, the 2TB storage drive, is seen as drive E:. I cannot for the life of me get it set to D:.

The Disk Management app lists 2 partitions on Disk 0, the SSD: 450MB, a recovery partition, and a 99MB EFI System Partition. Disk 1 is the E: with just under 2TB.

Ideas?

 

[Elixer]

In disk management, highlight the partition that is E: remove that drive letter.
Then assign D to it.

Or, are you saying that D isn't available in the dropdown menu choice?
If that is the case, do you have any optical or flash or card readers?

Though, you know, it doesn't really matter what the drive is accessed under, unless you are talking about programs that were installed in D now don't work, which would require a reinstall?

 

[pcgeek11]

If D is not available then it must be used on a different partition.

Is it?

If it is reassign that partition to a different letter. Then D should be available to use.

 

[Traxan]

/facepalm

The damn optical drive is assigned to D. I forgot to look at the This PC section, because the Explorer doesn't automatically include optical drives. How embarrassing.

Thanks guys.

 

[Brian Stirling]

I recently completed building a new video/image editing PC that has a PCIe SSD for OS and programs as drive C as well as two 6TB WD Black HD's for storage and the OS populated them as C (OS and programs), D (One of the 6TB HD's) and F (the other 6TB HD). Turns out the optical drive was squeezed in between them as drive E. I have rearranged so the optical is drive D and the 6TB HD's are E and F which makes more sense.


Brian