Windows 10: Drives letters getting swapped

Hello,
I've noticed on during my last restoring of my system and reloading of W10 Pro, that after I reattach the 2nd, third drive and the DVD, they got swapped in the system. Could it be the bios on an old Gigabyte motherboard or the OS. I guess I can use disk manager to reassign them but it causes headaches with restoring in Paragon may have been a part of my last crisis.
Opinions and any suggestions requested
Thanks


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External Drive Letter G is Not Available

Hi Jerry,

Looks like you are encountering an issue with managing the driver letters for your drives. To troubleshoot this concern, can you confirm if you have tried plugging in other external drives and see if the drive letter that you want is assigned to that drive.
You can then swap the drive letter for the two drives to get your previous backup settings.

If the suggestion above didn't work, feel free to post back so we can further troubleshoot.

 

Partition problems setting active and losing drive letter

Hello Lukas

Does your D drive (Disk 1) lose its letter? I would try swapping the SATA cables and ports between it and the optical drive and see if the issue persists.

You could also try assigning a different drive letter to your optical drive and then reassign a letter to your storage drive as this may be a case of signature collisions.

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Happening because of the on-board SATA ports that you are using directs how and when the system sees the drives......

You might try marking the end of the SATA cable that plugs into the drives with some type of annotation to remember to plug them back into the desired drive........I have them marked with a number system to ensure I plug them back where I had them so I wont have to manually go and change them in disc management or a partitioning software......

 

I'm wondering if W10's disk management can re-assign desired drive letters and make the desired drive letter designations stick.

 

Plugging Internal drives into the same SATA ports on the motherboard is important but I see the problem happening more often with External USB drives not getting into the same USB port when plugging back in. I use Disk Management to verify and/or reassign drive letters. I have 2 Custom computers with GigaByte boards.

 

Hello Kipper,
What a good idea. Will do that and thank you!
Best

 

You are welcome glennc........