How to change, remove, assign a drive letter in Windows XP

[SpearMan]

When one adds a new hard drive, partition, or CD-ROM, the natural order of the drives may be changed. By changing the drive letter of the system volume or the boot volume is not a built-in feature of the Disk Management snap-in.This will walk you through changing the drive letters to whatever you want.

Following are the steps to assign a drive letter and you need to login as an administrator

1. Click on Start,then click on Control Panel, and then click Performance and Maintenance.
   
2. Now Click on Administrative Tools, double-click on Computer Management, and then click Disk Management in the left pane.
   
3. Now Right-click on the drive, the partition, the logical drive, or the volume that you want to assign a drive letter to, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths.
   
4. Click on Add.
   
5. Now click on assign the following drive letter if it is not already selected, and then either accept the default drive letter or click the drive letter that you want to use.
   
6. Click OK.

[SpearMan]

Following are the steps to change a drive letter and you need to login as an administrator

1. Click Start, click Control Panel, and then click Performance and Maintenance.and you have to login as an Administrator.
   
2. Click on Administrative Tools, double-click Computer Management, and then click Disk Management in the left pane.
   
3. Right-click on the drive, the partition, the logical drive, or the volume that you want to assign a drive letter to, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths.
   
4. Now Click on Change.
   
5. Click Assign the following drive letter if it is not already selected, click the drive letter that you want to use, and then click OK.
   
6. Finally click on Yes when you are prompted to confirm the drive letter change.

[SpearMan]

Following are the steps to remove a drive letter and you need to login as an administrator.

1. Click on Start,then click on Control Panel, and then click Performance and Maintenance.
   
2. Click on Administrative Tools, double-click Computer Management, and then click Disk Management in the left pane.
   
3. Now Right-click on the drive, the partition, the logical drive, or the volume that you want to assign a drive letter to, and then click Change Drive Letter and Paths.
   
4. Select on Remove.
   
5. Finally click on Yes when you are prompted to confirm the removal.