About a year ago, I connected an external hard drive to my PC. It
immediately showed up as Drive D when I looked at "My Computer". I use it to
store pictures and for several applications that I don't use every day.
Recently, I connected two new hard drives that I intend to use only for
backups. Now my system seems to be confused about which letter to assign to
which external hard drive. The old one is never Drive D anymore, and all
three show up with different letters on different days. Is there anything I
can do to change my old one back to Drive D and to assign permanent
identifying letters to the other two?

"JR13" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> About a year ago, I connected an external hard drive to my PC. It
> immediately showed up as Drive D when I looked at "My Computer". I use it
> to
> store pictures and for several applications that I don't use every day.
> Recently, I connected two new hard drives that I intend to use only for
> backups. Now my system seems to be confused about which letter to assign
> to
> which external hard drive. The old one is never Drive D anymore, and all
> three show up with different letters on different days. Is there anything
> I
> can do to change my old one back to Drive D and to assign permanent
> identifying letters to the other two?

Click Start / Run / diskmgmt.msc to launch the Disk Manager, then assign the
drive letters the way you like them.

"Pegasus (MVP)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>
> "JR13" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news53D62B2-D2B7-498A-8568-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> About a year ago, I connected an external hard drive to my PC. It
>> immediately showed up as Drive D when I looked at "My Computer". I use
>> it to
>> store pictures and for several applications that I don't use every day.
>> Recently, I connected two new hard drives that I intend to use only for
>> backups. Now my system seems to be confused about which letter to assign
>> to
>> which external hard drive. The old one is never Drive D anymore, and all
>> three show up with different letters on different days. Is there
>> anything I
>> can do to change my old one back to Drive D and to assign permanent
>> identifying letters to the other two?
>
> Click Start / Run / diskmgmt.msc to launch the Disk Manager, then assign
> the drive letters the way you like them.

However: note that the selected drive letter will only be applied if you
connect the drive to the same USB port that it was connected to when the
letter was assigned. This is by design.

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> "Pegasus (MVP)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
>>
>> "JR13" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news53D62B2-D2B7-498A-8568-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> About a year ago, I connected an external hard drive to my PC. It
>>> immediately showed up as Drive D when I looked at "My Computer". I
>>> use it to
>>> store pictures and for several applications that I don't use every
>>> day. Recently, I connected two new hard drives that I intend to use
>>> only for backups. Now my system seems to be confused about which
>>> letter to assign to
>>> which external hard drive. The old one is never Drive D anymore,
>>> and all three show up with different letters on different days. Is
>>> there anything I
>>> can do to change my old one back to Drive D and to assign permanent
>>> identifying letters to the other two?
>>
>> Click Start / Run / diskmgmt.msc to launch the Disk Manager, then
>> assign the drive letters the way you like them.
>
> However: note that the selected drive letter will only be applied if
> you connect the drive to the same USB port that it was connected to
> when the letter was assigned. This is by design.
>
>
>

USB Drive Letter Manager from the following site should help you:

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html

I use it and now I never have to wonder what drive letter will be
assigned to any of my external drives (and I use a lot of different
drives and flash memory)

The date and time was Thursday, January 15, 2009 5:05:08 PM, and on a
whim, blank pounded out on the keyboard:

> "M.I.5¾" <(E-Mail Removed)_SPAM.co.uk> wrote in
> news:496f3313$(E-Mail Removed):
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>> "Pegasus (MVP)" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:%(E-Mail Removed)...
>>> "JR13" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>>> news53D62B2-D2B7-498A-8568-(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>> About a year ago, I connected an external hard drive to my PC. It
>>>> immediately showed up as Drive D when I looked at "My Computer". I
>>>> use it to
>>>> store pictures and for several applications that I don't use every
>>>> day. Recently, I connected two new hard drives that I intend to use
>>>> only for backups. Now my system seems to be confused about which
>>>> letter to assign to
>>>> which external hard drive. The old one is never Drive D anymore,
>>>> and all three show up with different letters on different days. Is
>>>> there anything I
>>>> can do to change my old one back to Drive D and to assign permanent
>>>> identifying letters to the other two?
>>> Click Start / Run / diskmgmt.msc to launch the Disk Manager, then
>>> assign the drive letters the way you like them.
>> However: note that the selected drive letter will only be applied if
>> you connect the drive to the same USB port that it was connected to
>> when the letter was assigned. This is by design.
>>
>>
>>
>
> USB Drive Letter Manager from the following site should help you:
>
> http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm_e.html
>
> I use it and now I never have to wonder what drive letter will be
> assigned to any of my external drives (and I use a lot of different
> drives and flash memory)

I used that site and procedure to fix an issue on a network where USB
printers kept getting the new hardware detection if plugged into a
different port on different laptop computers. It worked great until one
of the Windows Updates broke it and now it's back to the same old issue. :-(

--
Terry R.

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