Change the recovery partition to a different letter, excluding D.

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DaDoxOP
Junior Member

01-19-2026, 11:28 PM

You’ve moved your Windows setup from a 64GB drive to a 256GB one, but the partitions got swapped—your recovery drive now shows as D: instead of the intended data drives (H Smile

. This caused issues with programs and game files being copied there. You’re looking for a way to rename the partition to something other than D:, but you’ve used the default tools like Disk Management and DiskPart without success. Any suggestions? Thanks!

DaDoxOP

01-19-2026, 11:28 PM #1

You’ve moved your Windows setup from a 64GB drive to a 256GB one, but the partitions got swapped—your recovery drive now shows as D: instead of the intended data drives (H Smile . This caused issues with programs and game files being copied there. You’re looking for a way to rename the partition to something other than D:, but you’ve used the default tools like Disk Management and DiskPart without success. Any suggestions? Thanks!