I've had problems renaming the drive letter on built-in media card readers on some computers.
Usually, it's very easy to change a drive letter. Just open the Disk Management tool in windows and choose the device and change the letter.
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Step by step instructions:
Right click Computer - Manage - Storage - Disk Management - Right click on the drive and choose Change Drive Letter and Paths.
In this instance, I could not do so. So I did a search for cannot change drive letter of sd card reader and found my answer here.
To make it short: to Change drive letter designation on internal SD card reader you need to rename the following registry key.
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Step by step instructions:
Right click Computer - Manage - Storage - Disk Management - Right click on the drive and choose Change Drive Letter and Paths.
In this instance, I could not do so. So I did a search for cannot change drive letter of sd card reader and found my answer here.
To make it short: to Change drive letter designation on internal SD card reader you need to rename the following registry key.
- HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices
- Right-click "\DosDevices\D:", and then click Rename
- Rename it to \DosDevices\S: - or whatever letter you want
- Reboot pc and it's set
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