Windows 10: 2nd and 3rd Hard Drive. Both show 2 drive letters

I recently was required to reinstall Windows 10 after I installed a new SSD as my C: drive. Now, I've got everything up and running I noted the drive letters that were assigned to my second and third hard drives were different than what I use to have and not the drive letters I preferred. I followed the instructions to change the drive letter and they did not change but rather it added the new drive letter I assigned to the old drive letter. Below, is what File Explorer shows me now. I noted that the I and J are shown with a colon but D and E do not.


Local Disk (C

Local Disk (D) (I

Local Disk (E) (J


I then went back into Device Manager and chose to "change the drive letter" again but the next window allowed me to remove the extra drive letter so I removed it (J and found that disk no longer appeared in File Explorer at all and became inaccessible. The drive does continue to show up in Device Manager and Disk Management and continues to show both drive letters.


I have spent several days researching this problem, trying many suggestions listed on Help web pages and nothing has been successful.

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