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How to assign a PERMANET letter to my external HDD?
Here you will see my problem:
Windows 10 not assigning letters to my drive. - YouTube
sorry for low quality.
Here you will see my problem:
Windows 10 not assigning letters to my drive. - YouTube
sorry for low quality.
How do you make sure your external drive is always allocated the same letter?
Easy.
a. Pick a letter, any letter - so long as it's late in teh alphabet and wil never be used. Let's say R (e.g. for Macrium Reflect disk images - everyone should be using disk imaging....)
b. Change the drive letter of your USB disk to R in Disk Management.
Job done. Next time you plug it in, it will be allocated R.
Make sure you don't use that letter for any other disk.
(Note: there is a better way with Macrium Reflect to use the hardware id of the disk).
Welcome to TenForums @negru555
I looked carefully at the video. I noticed that you just unplugged the HDD.
For some reason your Windows is still showing a 'Local disk (E:)' after you removed it. Windows is not recognising that the drive has been removed. It seems that it already thinks it has a drive E: so it is unable to assign that letter to the drive when you plug it back in.
To get Windows to release the drive letter when you remove the HDD, try ejecting the HDD before removing it. The 'Safely remove Hardware and Eject Media' icon should be on the taskbar near the Clock. I don't see it on your video, so you may need to click the 'Show hidden icons' arrow to find it, shown as < on your taskbar.
PS: sometimes when Windows is not behaving as it should (like not recognising that a drive has been removed) then a Restart may fix it. It has to be a Restart (not just a Shut down) because that's the only way to do a full boot from cold if Fast Start up is in use.
Last edited by Bree; 05 Jul 2018 at 06:48. Reason: PS: