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How to Change Drive Letter | How to allocate a Disk Drive in Windows 11, Step by Step

By Debashis Pati Last updated Mar 7, 2022

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If you have a windows computer or laptop and after formating your computer you may need to allocate or unhide your systems’s harddrive. In this article, you will know how to change drive letter, drive path in your windows laptop and on your computer. Making a change hard drive letter is easy but if you dont do it correctly it may erase your main data. So read the full article and know how to change drive letter Windows 10 or in Windows 11.

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Table of Contents

How to change the drive letter in Windows 10

To make a change in the drive letter in Windows 10 you must follow the below steps.

Right click on my computer / This Pc / or in your PC Name
Click on Manage

After that, a separate pop screen will be open where you find a three-option called system tools, storage and services and applications. Click on the storage option and you will see a sub-option called Disk Management. Click on Disk Management and you will find a tab where you get your all partitioned hard disk. Apart from that, you will get how much space you have on your hard disk.

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To change the drive letter in Windows 10 or in Windows 11 you will right-click on the partitioned hard disk. You may note that your active hard disk will be indicated as online. Right click on desire drive to change disk letter. Click on change drive letter and paths. After clicking on the change drive letter and paths you will get a pop-up screen where you find an option to change the letter. Also,read: MSI Pulse GL76 Gaming laptop : Price and Specifications (2021)

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To change the drive letter Windows 10 or in Windows 11 click on the change option in the pop-up window and select a new drive letter that you want to assign. Then click on ok to fully assign. Now your drive letter changed now.

How to allocate an unallocated hard drive

Sometimes when you format your computer or laptop you may notice that one of the partitioned drives is not showing on my computer. At that time you follow the above steps and assign the unallocated drive by following the above steps. When a drive is unallocated that means this drive has not assigned a drive letter. Users may follow the above steps by right-clicking on an unallocated drive. After assigning a drive letter with an unallocated drive, now your drive will be allocated and displayed on my computer. Also,read: Top 7 Laptops In India | Best Laptop available In India (2021).

Wrapping up

On our Social media handle Twitter, someone asks us how to change drive letter in Windows 7 or how to rename a drive letter. You can change the drive letter by following the above steps because the steps to change the drive letter in Windows 10 / Windows 7 are the same.

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