Windows 10: External USB drive letter assignment problem

Hi All,I'm faced with a little conundrum concerning what I feel the 'willy-nilly' assignment of a drive letter to external SSD backup disks.Looking for your insights and hopefully solutions.When I attach disk-1 to my brand new Dell laptop running Windows 10 updates up to date it assigns it drive letter D: which is great.Then the drive is ejected through the system tray Safely Remove option, which works as expected.Then disk-2 is attached to the laptop and I was expecting to get drive letter D: assigned to that disk also, but to my surprise it got assigned drive letter E:. !!!It's almost

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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.

 

Windows 10 will not assign a drive letter when connecting a USB Drive

Did you start the Virtual Disk Service and use the Command Prompt to enable Automount following the other steps I asked you to complete in

http://woshub.com/windows-doesnt-assign-letters...

Please complete every step I gave which should fix the problem.

 

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

maybe your USB drive is trying to assign a drive letter that is already taken.

goto

start > control panel > administrative tools > computer manager > disk manager

find your USB drive and assign is a drive letter