Monday, October 3, 2011

General Tips - Fix Drive letter for your External Hard Disk

When we connect external hard disk, it will be given with next available alphabet. It is quite often that the alphabet will be changed. We have to map the shortcuts/PST files every time the alphabet is changed.

To fix this, we can fix alphabet for a hard disk. Choose an alphabet way out in disk alphabets. With this what ever the USB port we connect the drive, the same alphabet will be assigned. Below are the steps for the same.

1. Go to Disk Management: Right click on My Computer, select Manage, on left panel select Disk Management. (Or Run command: diskmgmt.msc)
2. Right click the device and select Change Device Letter and Paths. Click Button: Change and assign an alphabet way out in the Disk Drives Alphabets (I have chosen K).

Hope this helps.
For Some more tips on external hard disk follow URL: http://lifehacker.com/5624331/top-10-external-hard-drive-tricks

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