Assigning Letters to External Hard Drives

[JR13]

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?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

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.

 

[M.I.5¾]

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.

 

[blank]

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)

 

[Terry R.]

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

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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