I installed a second internal hard drive and now my external hard drive has gone from drive F: to drive C:. Not sure why a drive accessed from a USB port would change but it did. Would really like get my external back to drive F: as all my music playlists on realplayer are set to F:. Appreciate any input.
External Hard Drive went from F: to C:
- Thread starter spealman
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Your boot drive should be seeing the usb external model now as G not C since the OS is C there. When adding any new drive you have to expect a drive letter shift. The designated letter assigned by Windows can usually but not always be changed in the Disk Management tool when right clicking on the drive/partition listed there.
To open the disk management go through the "Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Storage". Once you open the storage section you will see a small windows where you scroll to the intended drive and right click there. You often have to temporarily give another drive a different number temporarily if one specific letter is taken.
To open the disk management go through the "Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Storage". Once you open the storage section you will see a small windows where you scroll to the intended drive and right click there. You often have to temporarily give another drive a different number temporarily if one specific letter is taken.
Your primary will be seen as another letter when booting from a different drive. You have to do this with each version of Windows installed if you are dual or multibooting there to see the same drive seen as F. Here the XP primary ide is seen as D when in Vista on the second ide drive and refuses to be changed to F, G, or any other letter since Vista's own boot loader is installed there. Fortunately software disks are no lonfger strictly looking for the D optical drive or else. 
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