Portable Harddrive Changed Location letters from E to F

Lisa Lock

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Hi I have a portable hardrive that i save all my work on and I use it work off, today I went to access my excel sheets and ive noticed my portable hardrive is now F and Im unable to open my excel sheets (Excel sheets have a E in front of them the old portable harddrive letter )(loads of work on here), how do i change the name so i can access the files ???
Sorry in advance if I havnt used the correct terminology :-/
 

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Right click on Start button > Run > diskmgmt.msc, chose the disk you want and "Change drive letter and Paths" on the right click menu on that drive.
 

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In Excel, do a file open and browse to the F: drive and reopen your document. What CountMike said will work too.
 

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if you encounter the same problem again just change the drive letter again

but this problem its rarely happen
 

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Thankyou so much for your help, I really appreciate it :) will do what you suggested today, what would cause the driver name to change like that ???
 

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Thankyou so much for your help, I really appreciate it :) will do what you suggested today, what would cause the driver name to change like that ???
Connecting another USB device while this drive is not connected can take letter of another. Changing USB port can do it to.
Assigning letter to a drive is something OS does and it's not written on a drive itself so it does not stay on it.
 

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  • OS
    Windows 8.1 Pro
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Home made
    CPU
    AMD Ryzen7 2700x
    Motherboard
    Asus Prime x470 Pro
    Memory
    16GB Kingston 3600
    Graphics Card(s)
    Asus strix 570 OC 4gb
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 960 evo 250GB
    Silicon Power V70 240GB SSD
    WD 1 TB Blue
    WD 2 TB Blue
    Bunch of backup HDDs.
    PSU
    Sharkoon, Silent Storm 660W
    Case
    Raidmax
    Cooling
    CCM Nepton 140xl
    Internet Speed
    40/2 Mbps
    Browser
    Firefox
    Antivirus
    WD
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