Is it OK to change the drive letter of the Recover Partition (D) ?

[bikerwales]

My main M2 SSD drive on my Medion Eraser MD34400 MSN 10025109 windows 11 Pc has 5 partitions called: 1 System (No Name) Primary FAT 32, 2 (No Name) Primary Unformatted, 3 Boot C Primary NTFS, 4 Recovery (No Name) Primary NTFS, 5 Recover (D) Primary NTFS.

I want to add the D drive from my old computer to this one and retains it’s drive name (I’ve got a lot of files edited in Corel Video Studio and don’t want to have to relink everything!)

Do you think changing the name of this Recover Partition (D) is likely to cause system problems?  

[daddle]

@bikerwales 

Hi

Do you want to add a complet new drive, or just a partition? And do you want to switch the Recover Partition, its Name Recover to another name;  or do you want to switch drive letters?  And do you want to add an another drive from your old PC which contains a partition D as well? 

If you add you  the old drive , the partitions get all new n drive letters , following up  if your last drives partition  is D::, with  E:\,  F:\  etc.

The numbering  (letters) of your drives partitions is not fixed on the drive itself, but Windows assigns them all the times anew. 

Cheers, daddle

[bikerwales]

Hi Daddle thanks for responding.

I want to install a physical drive from my old PC and want it to show up as Local Disk (D) when viewed on “This PC”. Currently the Recover partition on my main drive on my new Medion shows as Recover (D) on “This PC”. The reason I want to keep this as Drive D is that I have thousands of  video files on the old drive that I have edited in Corel Video Studio and want to retain the file path for the files as other wise I will have to relink them all if I want to re edit which is a real pain.

Hope this make sense!

[bikerwales]

Sorry Daddle just toi be clear I want to change the drive/letter name on my Recover partition so that Windows can alloace D to my transferred drive hopw this makes sense!

[bikerwales]

@daddle 

Sorry to keep adding to post!  Basic question is - is it OK to change the Drive letter for the Recover partition on my main drive to E instead of D?

It is accessible and I can change it with disk management tool but I don;t want to do that f it is likely to cause system issues.

[daddle]

@bikerwales 

Send a screenshot of your drive Disk management. Especially the  underhalf, with the graphs of your drives.

So what are letter with which the drives are listed in Disk management? Those letter shows the partitions and the order they are  sorted out by Windows.

You can  give each partition any name, silly or not, that doesn't affect the order in which they are listed.

But one can change drive letters manually. 

But be aware with your  new PC the new D-Partition  could not  be used from your Windows installation, eg for the (old)  WindowsImageBackup\ if you made one on the old PC, or the files repository DESKTOP-xxxxxxxx\

Also if you have set a path to some programs on your new PCs D-Partition,  Windows will  not find them anymore; even if on your old D-Partition from the old PC the same programs were setup in the same way. The new Windows can't find them on the newly assigned D-drive.

Which means the old installations are forfeit. But of course Windows can use the newly assigned  D-partition or drive, if D was the only partition on the drive.  It will handle it as just more data space. 

But, I assume thats what you are aiming for: the Windows on the new PC can not use any installed programs  or shortcuts to   the old partition D from the old Computer7

daddle

[daddle]

@bikerwales 

First you have to change the new D-partitions´s drive letter from D to G or H.  Then letter D is free. The old drive partition (former D)    you should change the letter to D which did become free.

After this you have to assign the new drives Partition former D, now assigned to G or H, back to E.

 But be aware, PowerRecover, if it is installed on your new  PC , will not work anymore. Because it depends on the original  partition scheme the PC came with. Which can not be redone. Even if you restore the old order.

daddle

[daddle]

@bikerwales 

Did everything work out correctly? Or  do you still have questions?

daddle

[bikerwales]

Hi Daddle yes thanks for your help - pain to relink all the VideoStudio files as they are not on Drive D any longer but otherwise looking good - fingers crossed. 

[daddle]

@bikerwales 

Well I do not understand. If you swapped the D partitions letter of the new drive in your new computer to F, the letter D was set free.

After putting in the old drive with your "beloved" partition D on the old drive, the old partition would show at first a drive letter one higher than F on the renamed partition D of the new PC . 

Then you could go and swap that letter to D.

But like I said, the old paths or links from the old computer on D wouldn't work with the new Windows installation, even if the "old" drive or Partition is renamed to D as well. 

So relinking the files you can not avoid. 😥

Cheers, daddle