How do I assign or change the drive letter for my Iomega® drive in Windows® 2000?
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This solution applies to the following Iomega® drives:

  • Zip® 100MB & 250MB
  • Jaz® 1GB & 2GB
  • Iomega CD-RW / ZipCD™
  • PocketZip™ / Clik!™
  • Iomega Portable Hard Drive
  • HipZip™
  • Microdrive™
  • Peerless™
  • FotoShow™


Follow the steps below to assign or change the drive letter for your Iomega drive in Windows® 2000.

Note: Sometimes after installing your Iomega drive, the drive will take over the drive letter of your CD-ROM or some other drive. The steps below can also be used to change the drive letter of your CD-ROM or other drive whose drive letter was changed.

STEP ONE - Log in as the system administrator
You must be logged in as the system administrator in order to change drive letters in Windows 2000.

STEP TWO - Open the Disk Management window
  1. Insert a disk into the Iomega drive.

  2. Right-click the My Computer icon.

  3. Click Manage.

  4. Under the Storage category click Disk Management.


STEP THREE - Assign or change the drive letter
  1. In the upper half of the window, right-click the drive letter assigned to the Iomega drive.

  2. Click Change drive letter and path.

  3. Click Edit.

  4. Click the Assign drive letter drop-down menu and choose a desired drive letter for the Iomega drive.

  5. Click OK.

  6. Click Yes to the message that appears.

18 March 2002