Comments on: Change Your Drive's Letter In Vista

By: Ross Hewitt

Ross Hewitt — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:37:55 +0000

Thanks Diana, very simple to follow and very handy….got itunes working again from my external hard drive

By: anne

anne — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:17:50 +0000

perfect. thank you!

By: marc van bekkum

marc van bekkum — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 00:13:33 +0000

thank you so much!!!!!

By: Niall

Niall — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 00:20:13 +0000

Awesome. you’ve saved me hours of heartache with itunes as i had before. cheers

By: Ruish

Ruish — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 16:32:38 +0000

Thanks and very helpful!
There is some problem about vista volume driver and that’s if to insert flash drive in it changes the previous volume of the other driver? It result to error message with could end on blue screen crash. I spent my time on managing even uninstalling some software like Quick Time player etc. still couldn’t manage to get rid of error message. Finally I found your guide very helpful.
Thanks a lot

By: Nils

Nils — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:43:43 +0000

Hey guys,

What do i do if i follow procedures and the error-msg “The parameter is incorrect” keeps popping up?

I want to change the letter of one of my external drives and it doesn’t seem to work. It’s just a basic, simple volume that says healthy (primary partition).
I’ve tried closing down processes which i thought were using the disk (like iTunes) and might interfere, but no succes.
The funny thing is, it does remove the current letter when i try to change, but then i can’t add another. That first letter stays in the ‘savely remove hardware’-app and comes back to the HD when i turn it back on.

Does the ‘savely remove hardware’-app cause the problem? If so, how do i turn it off.

BTW, i’ve done this before with other disks and had no problem at all…

Thanx for any help on this!

By: Katies

Katies — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 13:08:48 +0000

Hi there,

Aha, this answers some questions I’ve been having. But still unclear on one bit.

Running Vista Home Basic. I have two data storage USBs and one dongle. Now my DVD drive has stopped running DVDs, and keeps saying ‘no disk in drive e’. Still runs CDs, though. Have reallocated drive letters, but it’s still not recognising DVDs. Do I need to change drive letters somewhere else apart from in Computer Managment?

Thanks so much for your help.

By: A guy

A guy — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:10:22 +0000

Thanks for your guide. I use my 80 GB ipod classic as an external Hard-Drive. I have several programs installed on it and all of a sudden the PC changed its drive letter for my ipod rendering all my programs useless. Thx again.

By: p liu

p liu — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 04:49:36 +0000

I have 2 drives that I assigned differently on XP before. Now with Vista, I was able to assign one of them to the old drive letter but the other refused to be changed with “incorrect
parameter” error. I did some search and tried to eliminate the entry in Regedit to no avail.

Any solution or any other application that allows me to do the same?

Thanks!

By: Disappointed

Disappointed — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 02:07:27 +0000

I’ve got to ask: has anyone else here seen instances of their computer randomly changing the drive letter of external harddrives and/or thumbdrives when they are plugged in or safely removed? “Baffling” is the nicest word I can use to describe this phenomenon – one of many that have caused much wanted stress and high blood pressure here in the middle of Mid-Term season…