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Figure 17-3. Right-click a drive icon. From the shortcut menu, choose Change Drive Letter and
Paths.
Top: In this dialog box, click Change.
Bottom: Next, choose a letter that hasn’t already been assigned. Click OK, and then approve your
action in the confirmation box. Note that if you change a drive’s letter, shortcut icons pointing to files
on it no longer work.
And although you can change the drive letter of a USB drive (like an external hard drive or a flash
drive), it won’t stick. Next time you attach it, Windows will just give it the first available letter.
It’s also possible, by the way, to turn a drive into a “folder,” with its own letter (technically known as
mounted drives, junction points, or drive paths). You could do that, for example, to expand the
