Windows: Swap Drive letters between disks

I currently have 2 drives that I want to swap the drive letters of: D and F. I have a bunch of programs installed on D but I plan on taking out the drive in the near future so I've copied all of the files from D to F.

I was wondering if there is a way to change the F drive's letter to D without messing everything up.

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You can easily swap drive letters with Disk Management, but please keep in mind this has some risk and perhaps your programs might not work properly after swapping drive letters.

Don't change the drive letter of your OS partition [C:]:

1. Right-click on This PC → Manage → Storage → Disk Management
2. Right-click D: → Change drive letter and paths → Change → Assign a third drive letter → OK
3. Repeat #2 for F:, assigning D: as the new letter
4. Change drive letter assigned in #2 to F:

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