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How can I make my external hard drive be treated as the same drive letter on all computers?

by on September 22, 2010

Q: I use my external hard drive for listening to music on both my computers (amongst other things). On one computer, it is recognized as the E: drive, and on the other it is recognized as the F: drive.

In foobar (the music program I use) it is set to read my music from E: drive. So, obviously when I go to the other computer, it can’t find my music. I added the F: drive as a source of the files, but it means that each file is displayed twice (but only one can be played).

Is there a way to make both of my computers perceive/treat it as the F: drive (or the E: drive)?

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4 Responses to “How can I make my external hard drive be treated as the same drive letter on all computers?”
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    Picked as best answer

    Change the drive letter to a ‘lower’ letter like X:

    Start|Run|diskmgmt.msc|right click on drive to reassign|Change Drive Letters and Paths…|Change|Select letter

    You might need to do this once on each computer, but after that it should stick.

     

    Mark (Uber Geek) says: on September 22, 2010 at 8:56 am

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      Thanks a bunch, mate. I asked this on multiple tech forums, but no-one seemed to know the answer!
      I don’t know why it changed to F, but it was originally the E drive on both computers… it randomly switched one day… any idea why that might have been?

      Anyway, thanks!

       

      mrguy2039 (Newbie) says: on September 23, 2010 at 12:15 am

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    Why it would have switched could be number of random technical reasons, but just using a ‘lower’ letter should help out.

    Happy Computing!

     

    Mark (Uber Geek) says: on September 23, 2010 at 8:02 am

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    It turns out when my sister plugs her iPod in, it changes hers to E: and mine to F:

    Can I change hers without screwing it up?

     

    mrguy2039 (Newbie) says: on October 2, 2010 at 7:08 pm