External Hard Drive goes to G, not F and now iTunes won't work

Money_Grabber13579

My sister's external hard drive has now started to show up as drive G instead of F, even though there is nothing in F. Since all the music for iTunes is stored in F, it won't recognise it, since it is all on G. How can she get the hard drive to go back being F?

We've tried a re-start, plugging in another USB device (which goes to F, even after the hard drive has shown up in G) Any suggestions?

DanRogl

Plug the drive in, and click on the start button and then run and type the following: DISKMGMT.MSC
Then in the window that appears right click on the drive and choose change drive letter and paths, then click on the change button.
Use the drop down menu and select the letter that you'd like the drive to use, and OK/Apply your way out and close the Disk Management window.

lol, I dunno how I managed to type that... they keys arn't beside each other!

gaming_guy

love the typo Dan! :rotfl:

if you can't find run (eg in vista) press the windows key+r or start > right click my computer > manage and click disk management in the computer management window.

Money_Grabber13579

That great! Thank's everyone, got it sorted now!

totalsolutions

In future name it "Z" in Disk Manager (all new external hard drives, then "Y" , "X") then you will not have that problem using higher letters F,G,H ect.