I have a problem with a drive letter. it is assigned but not recognized by the Windows explorer. It happens only for one letter (M in my case). When I assign a different letter to the same drive, the explorer has no problem with recognizing it. If I assign this letter to another drive, it becomes invisible. The letter M is however recognized by the Disk Management.
Why would one particular letter be oddly hidden by the explorer?
Thanks.
It could be reserving M for usb...plug one in and see...also mount an .iso and see what letter it uses...
John,
This can happen if you have previously assigned that letter to a mapped network drive.
There has been at least one thread here about that in the past but there might be more. This is the one I made a note of
Using same letter for a drive and a mapped drive hides that drive from FE - Kari [post #10] - TenForums
Look for an M:\ entry in the Registry at
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices
Denis
Last edited by Try3; 31 Jul 2020 at 04:31.
You can clear unused reserved drive letters by running:
diskpart
automount scrub
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