change drive letter and paths is greyed out

Question: How to change or assign a drive letter to disk? Preferably using CLI, but instructions to use a GUI are also acceptable (read above only if you need to know why). The change drive letter and paths option greyed out can occur for a few reasons: The volume is not formatted in FAT or NTFS. I also couldn't find much by googling, except some people suggesting that it's not even possible to do from a Linux machine because Linux doesn't use drive letters, but I doubt that. I couldn't find anything in the man pages on the part about it, nor could I find any options in gparted or gnome disk utility. Sometimes a user will find the Extend Volume option is greyed out this is because the Extend Volume in Windows 10 is only available when there is When all steps are finished, you have successfully removed the virtual drive Windows 10. Windows 10 Disk Management is a tool you use to manage disks in Windows. GUI or CLI is fine, however, CLI is preferred. You also cannot add DOS, Linux, BSD, or Mac entries.

To resolve the problem, you can format your USB drive with a file system recognized by Windows 10 /11 or remove write protection at first. I would actually just like to know how to assign or change the drive letter of a disk. Note: If the USB drive is formatted with a file system incompatible with Windows OS, like Ext4 or is write-protected, you can find that Change Drive Letter and Paths option greyed out. So, unfortunately, all the Ask Ubuntu questions that have a title asking how to change the drive letter of a disk are actually pleas for support and were resolved in other ways. I'd like to assign a drive letter to this drive (and a couple of other similar NTFS drives) from one of my Linux machines so that he can just plug in the drive when he gets home and not have to have me there to set it up. I found a way to assign a drive letter through DOS using diskpart but don't have access to a Windows computer atm. The usual solution is to use the disk management utility in Windows to assign a drive letter but the option is greyed out (yay Windows!). After doing some googling and checking out the disk management utility in Windows, I've discovered the problem to be that the external drive has no drive letter assigned to it and that's why Windows can't bring it to the file manager. The drive is detected fine by Windows and it installs the drivers successfully and the device manager reports the device is working properly but it will not show up in Windows Explorer. Usually, this external hard drive is connected to a file server, and files are accessed over the network however, my file server broke down and I wanted to plug this external drive into my house mate's Windows 7 computer in the meantime so he can still access our media. Most of my computers in the house run Linux but I have a housemate using Windows 7. I have an external hard drive that I formatted with Ubuntu (using the Gnome Disk Utility aka Disks) as an NTFS file system.

Change drive letter and paths is greyed out