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Hom3r 17-05-2020 12:40

Assigning drive letters
 
I have a USB stick that in my Windows 8.1 laptop I have assigned a drive leter in disk management to "E".

Now I want to remove this and let windows auto assign a drive letter, but all I can appear to do is assign letters manually.

Any ideas how I solve this?

I've tried google.

pip08456 17-05-2020 13:25

Re: Assigning drive letters
 
You can do it with windows 7. Click on the orb right click Computer, select Manage, Disk Management.

Left click on usb drive select change drive letter and paths, click remove.

I would assume the same can be done in Win 8 once you get to disk management.

Hom3r 17-05-2020 13:59

Re: Assigning drive letters
 
I have tried the remove option, but the drive is then not available as there is no drive letter.

I have unplugged the USB stick and put back in but it doesn't assign one.

BenMcr 17-05-2020 14:03

Re: Assigning drive letters
 
Have to restarted your computer in between removing the current assignment and then plugging the USB drive in again

Hom3r 17-05-2020 14:26

Re: Assigning drive letters
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 36035420)
Have to restarted your computer in between removing the current assignment and then plugging the USB drive in again


No, but I'll try now

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Didn't work.


When I plug the drive in it makes a noise but thats it.


When I assign the drive letter it then opens the drive, and it is then visable in My PC.

BenMcr 17-05-2020 14:37

Re: Assigning drive letters
 
So these instructions are for Windows 10, but may work for Windows 8.1 too

https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/...dows-10-a.html

---------- Post added at 13:37 ---------- Previous post was at 13:32 ----------

Thinking about it as well, there is something 'sticking' in the system somewhere, so you may get some mileage is uninstalling the USB drive in device manager too when it's connected.

So that all references to the hardware ID are forgotten by Windows so that next time you connect it, it sees it as a brand new device.


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