If you are one for consistency, find out how you can assign permanent drive letter to your removable devices.
I like having a constant arrangement of letters in removable media drives, so I was glad to hear that there is a way to assign a fixed letter to your removable devices in Windows. This is particularly useful if you have an external hard drive and have video games or other mediums that rely on a fixed drive location to operate certain programs.
This a relatively easy and to the point guide, so there is little to no need for any kind of hand holding. Let’s get started!
STEP 1:
Press Windows Key + R and search for compmgmt.msc.
STEP 2:
Identify your USB by seeing the drive letter on “This PC” once you have identified the letter, find it in the newly opened box: Storage and in Disk Management.
STEP 3:
Once you have identified the letter, right click on it and choose “Change drive letter and paths…”
STEP 4:
Next, you will see the following box, choose the Drive letter and proceed to click on “Change”
STEP 5:
You will now see the following box come up, over here, you can now assign a letter of your choosing to the device. I chose to go with my name and used the letter R.
Once you have assigned it the media a letter, you are now free to click OK on the accompanying dialog box that comes up, once you do OK, you will see the drive re-appear and with the change of residence.
Unfortunately, a common mistake that people make with these drive labels is that these are only applied to your laptops or systems which you carried this out on. It won’t be necessary that assigning a USB a fixed letter on your own system would make it fixed on other systems unless you replicate this tweak on the other system too.
While the tweak is surely for leisure purposes, we would love to know if you have an actual use for such a guide and if this tweak was of any help to you!
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