{"id":52657,"date":"2023-06-08T11:09:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T10:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/52657\/assign-remove-drive-letters-with-diskpart\/"},"modified":"2023-06-08T11:09:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T10:09:03","slug":"assign-remove-drive-letters-with-diskpart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/52657\/assign-remove-drive-letters-with-diskpart\/","title":{"rendered":"Assign \/ remove drive letters with diskpart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Use Diskpart to assign a drive letter to a partition.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-grey ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of content<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a href=\"#\" class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" aria-label=\"Toggle Table of Content\"><span class=\"ez-toc-js-icon-con\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #999;color:#999\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/52657\/assign-remove-drive-letters-with-diskpart\/#Assign_drive_letter\" >Assign drive letter<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/52657\/assign-remove-drive-letters-with-diskpart\/#Remove_drive_letters\" >Remove drive letters<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Assign_drive_letter\"><\/span>Assign drive letter<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>To assign a drive letter to a partition with Diskpart, we start &#8220;<code>diskpart<\/code>&#8221; with admin rights. Then we use &#8220;<code>list disk<\/code>&#8221; to display the drives.<\/p>\n<p>With &#8220;<code>select disk x<\/code>&#8220;, where x is the number, we select the drive.<\/p>\n<p>With &#8220;<code>list vol<\/code>&#8221; we display the volumes. Here, too, we now select the desired volume &#8220;<code>select vol x<\/code>&#8220;. X is also the number from the list.<\/p>\n<p>Now we enter &#8220;<code>assign letter=x<\/code>&#8220;. X is the drive letter here.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/letter_1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"736\" height=\"536\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/letter_1.png 736w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/letter_1-300x218.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With &#8220;exit&#8221; we can leave &#8220;diskpart&#8221; again. Afterwards, our volume\/partition is ready under the drive letter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/letter_2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"252\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/letter_2.png 543w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/letter_2-300x139.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Remove_drive_letters\"><\/span>Remove drive letters<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Removing drive letters is done in the same way. We select the drive and volume. To remove, we then use the following command:<\/p>\n<pre>\r\nremove letter=x\r\n<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/letter_3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"703\" height=\"519\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/letter_3.png 703w, https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/letter_3-300x221.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 703px) 100vw, 703px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use Diskpart to assign a drive letter to a partition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1555],"tags":[1558],"class_list":["post-52657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software-en","tag-windows-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ekiwi-blog.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}