Oa997yIa' alt='Changing External Hard Drive Letter Windows 8' title='Changing External Hard Drive Letter Windows 8' />Access to a disk drive using volume ID instead of a drive letter in Windows. I prefer to use absolute drive letters for flash drives. There are adequate assignments for just about anybody unless you have 2. In Windows 7 use Windows to format and assign a drive label or if the drive already has a label, use command line Label drive letter to give it a label of your choice. Then go to control panel, system and security, administrative tools, computer management, disk management to select the drive with the label you created by right clicking on the drive, select change drive letter and paths and assign the volume to a specific drive letter. It will always mount to that drive letter if it is available. I have labeled drives that contained live data and the labeling did not affect the existing data in any way. It seems to work just like it did on floppies back in the good old days. Changing External Hard Drive Letter Windows 8' title='Changing External Hard Drive Letter Windows 8' />Can I access to a disk drive using volume ID instead of a drive letter in Windows It could be very useful for external drives. So, if you want to install Windows 7 on an external hard drive you need to follow the steps given below. J Cole Young Jeezy Kenny Lofton Download. The procedure is simple but you need to install Windows. Trouble We just got a quite common problem regarding pen drives, one of our reader Emmanuel Ayivi sent us a problem regarding pen drive detection.