Drive letters mixed up

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danielb59

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I just installed Windows 10 on my four and a half year old Dell Inspiron. I have two external hard drives labeled K and L along with a sometimes used portable drive that the PC usually call M. The portable drive is seldom plugged in while the two externals are constantly connected. I recently copied some files from K to M and now the computer has the drive letters transposed. Normally, most of my shortcuts with commonly used files go to the K drive, but now they want to go to the old M drive. When I unplug the portable drive the computer still retains the incorrect designation for the old K drive, calling it M. Hope this makes sense. How do I correct this in Windows 10?
Thanks in advance.
Dan
 
Unplug one of the external drives. Hit the Windows key > Type "disk manager" and hit enter. Select the still plugged in disk from the list on this screen > right click > change drive letter and paths.

The reason you need to unplug one is that you can't assign a drive letter while it's already in use. Alternatively, you could temporarily assign one drive a random letter, fix the second drive, then fix the first.
 
Troncoso said:
Unplug one of the external drives. Hit the Windows key > Type "disk manager" and hit enter. Select the still plugged in disk from the list on this screen > right click > change drive letter and paths.

The reason you need to unplug one is that you can't assign a drive letter while it's already in use. Alternatively, you could temporarily assign one drive a random letter, fix the second drive, then fix the first.
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It worked perfectly. Thanks. Dan
 
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