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"The parameter is incorrect" when assigning a new drive letter

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kokubunji, 2024.10.19

While attempting to reassign the drive letter for an NVME drive on Windows 10, "Disk Management" kept throwing up a warning: "The parameter is incorrect". I searched around for answers but didn't find them. So I tried simply removing the existing drive letter, and it warned me that I couldn't do so for a boot or pagefile volume. I had some time before assigned the pagefile to that drive and forgotten all about it. Changing the pagefile setup allowed me to get on with what I was doing.

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...and when you try to get some, it surely can be hard. There's always trouble waiting, when you leave your own back yard.

—Motorhead, Lost Johnny (lyrics by Mick Farren)