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If your computer is already using drive letters L or M, you will need to reassign those drives to different drive letters. In this example, drive letter M is already in use. The disk mounted on M: will be reassigned to drive letter G.

1. Right-click My Computer and select Manage.
   
   
   
   
2. In the Computer Management dialog, click Disk Management. You will see the volumes and disks in the right-hand panes. Note Disk 1 is mounted on Drive M:.
   
   
   
   
3. Right-click on the volume whose drive letter you want to change and select Change Drive Letter and Paths....
   
   
   
   
4. In the Change Drive Letter and Paths dialog, click Change.
   
   
   
   
5. Select the drive letter that you want to use for this disk.
   
   
   
   
6. Confirm the change. The warning means that if things on the computer (e.g., installed software) pointed to files on drive M, that those things might not work anymore.
   
   
   
   
7. Now the disk that was previously mounted on drive M is mounted on drive G. This will allow you to substitute drives in order to get the course map documents to display data properly.
   
   

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