How to change the driver letter of a computer

Many of us don’t know about the possibility to change the driver letter or path of our computer. This will cause some problems to your programs, but you can change the settings at any time you want. You may think what the purpose of doing this and risking the files of your computer. You can amuse your friends by this tricks which many of them don’t know.

Suppose you are working on a video editing project and for some reason you need to shift your work to another computer. You were working on the previous computer with 'G' drive and it is not available in the new one. Then what will you do? Definitely you won't love to do everything from the scratch. In this situation you can change the drive letter of the new computer to 'G' and copy the raw files to it and continue the work as usual.

You can’t change the name of the drive by right clicking. You won't find the rename option. Here I am going to explain how you can change the letter or path your drive. Just follow the below steps. 

• Right click on My Computerà Select ‘Manage’. New window will open. In that window browse 'Disk Management' option.
• Right click on the drive which you want to change the drive letter. Click 'Change Drive Letter and Paths' option
• Click on 'change' and then select one of the drive letters available in the combo box and click on OK.

Now check your 'My Computer' and it is changed with the new path. If you want to change it back to the previous one just follow the steps once again and select the desired drive letter.

Limitation:

When changing the drive letter it causes some problems in some programs associated with the drive. For example, if you are working on a video editing project and all your raw video files are stored in a drive say 'E' and if you change it's letter to something else the project file may find it impossible to read the file. So, be careful while doing this.