Windows 10: Docking Station No Longer Allows Drive Letter Assignment

Hi Friends!Up until today, I have had an external hard drive connected to my laptop via a docking station. When I went to play a game I have downloaded onto it, it was no longer available in File Explorer. It is visible in Device Manager. I tried to assign it a drive letter again but it was not available in Disk Management. Can anyone help me get this working again? The drive works when plugged in directly but that means I can't charge the laptop as I have too few ports. Thank you!

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help. USB drive isn't assigned a drive letter.

Any usb flash drive I plug into my computer isn't assigned a drive letter. The physical drive shows in the "safely remove hardware" but it doesnt show up in disk management. I have tried to populate the volume thru the safely remove hardware properties window and it does pop up in the list but it doesn't stay there. This isn't a format or assign a letter problem. It's more complicated then that. Maybe one of the services needed for usb drive management was disabled? Suggestions needed. btw external usb harddrives work fine.

 

I cannot connect to home Wi-Fi off the docking station but not on docking station.

1. I cannot connect to home Wi-Fi off the docking station but not on docking station.
2. When i'm on docking station system says i'm connected to home Wi-Fi, but when i browse says not connected.
3. Other devices connected to home Wi-Fi has no issue.
4. What steps can i take to resolve the issue other than updating Wi-Fi adapter driver?

 

Assigning Drive Letter

I am trying to assign a particular letter to one of my hard drives. None of my other drives are assigned that letter, but it is not listed in the choices. Is there something I can do?