How to Remove and Assign Drive Letters in Windows with Diskpart

Change the drive letter in the command prompt

1. Open an elevated command prompt.
2. Type diskpart .
3. Type list volume to see all drives and their partitions.
4. Look at the ### column in the output. You need to use its value with the command select volume NUMBER . ...
5. Type the command remove letter=X to remove the drive letter.

1. How do I assign a drive letter in diskpart?
2. How do I remove an assigned drive letter?
3. How do I assign a drive letter?
4. How do I remove drive letter from EFI partition?
5. Why can't I change drive letter and paths?
6. How do I change a directory from C to D in CMD?
7. What happens if two drives have the same letter?
8. Why are some drive letters not available?
9. How do I hide drive letters in Windows 10?
10. Can you not assign a drive letter?
11. Does drive letter matter?
12. Is it safe to change drive letters?

How do I assign a drive letter in diskpart?

DiskPart to assign drive letters via Command Prompt

1. Open a command prompt.
2. Type in diskpart.
3. Type list disk to see a list of disks.
4. Type select disk # (where # is the disk you want)
5. Type detail disk to see partitions.
6. Type select volume # (where # is the volume you want)
7. Type assign letter=x (where x is the drive letter)

How do I remove an assigned drive letter?

To Remove Drive Letter in Disk Management

1. Press the Win + R keys to open Run, type diskmgmt. ...
2. Right click or press and hold on the drive (ex: "G") you want to remove the drive letter of, and click/tap on Change Drive Letter and Paths. ( ...
3. Click/tap on the Remove button. ( ...
4. Click/tap on Yes to confirm. (

How do I assign a drive letter?

Click the "Disk Management" link, and then click your external hard drive's assigned disk. Right-click the disk and click "Change Drive Letters and Paths."

How do I remove drive letter from EFI partition?

Type DISKPART. Type LIST VOLUME. Type SELECT VOLUME NUMBER "Z" (where "Z" is your EFI drive number) Type REMOVE LETTER=Z (where Z is your drive number)
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To do this:

1. Open Disk Management.
2. Right-click on the partition.
3. Select "Change Drive Letter and Paths..."
4. Click "Remove"
5. Click OK.

Why can't I change drive letter and paths?

The change drive letter and paths option greyed out can occur for a few reasons: The volume is not formatted in FAT or NTFS. The drive is write-protected. There are bad sectors on the disk.

How do I change a directory from C to D in CMD?

How to change the drive in Command Prompt (CMD) To access another drive, type the drive's letter, followed by ":". For instance, if you wanted to change the drive from "C:" to "D:", you should type "d:" and then press Enter on your keyboard.

What happens if two drives have the same letter?

Yes Huckleberry,you can have 2 drives with the same letter, that will not be a problem. However, if you connect both drives at the same time by accident, Windows will automatically assign a different drive letter to one of the drives . . . Power to the Developer!

Why are some drive letters not available?

If you find a certain drive letter missing from the list of available drive letters in Disk Management, it could be caused by: You have permanently assigned drive letter for an external hard drive, so the letter is reserved for the drive although it is removed.

How do I hide drive letters in Windows 10?

How to hide a drive using Disk Management

1. Use the Windows key + X keyboard shortcut and select Disk Management.
2. Right-click the drive you want to hide and choose Change Drive Letter and Paths.
3. Select the drive letter and click the Remove button.
4. Click Yes to confirm.

Can you not assign a drive letter?

It means that it will not give it a drive letter. It will format the drive but it will not appear with a drive letter in Explorer. If you want to copy files to the drive using Explorer then you will need to assign a letter to it. That you don't intend to use other programs to access it is irrelevant.

Does drive letter matter?

While drive letters might seem less important now that we're using graphical desktops and can simply click on icons, they do still matter. Even if you only access your files through graphical tools, the programs you use have to refer to those files with a file path in the background—and they use drive letters to do so.

Is it safe to change drive letters?

There are drives whose letter you can safely change. If a partition contains only data files that you rarely use, changing the drive letter may cause an occasional annoyance but rarely anything worse. External drives' letters can almost always be changed without problems.