Windows 10: How to assign a PERMANET letter to my external HDD?

Here you will see my problem:
Windows 10 not assigning letters to my drive. - YouTube

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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.

 

How to assign a PERMANET letter to my external HDD?

Thanks.My problem was from my HDD aparently.I deleted the partition and created a new one using the software made by my hdd manufacture and now everything is working.
Thanks for help.

 

How to assign a PERMANET letter to my external HDD?

Welcome to TenForums @negru555

I looked carefully at the video. I noticed that you just unplugged the HDD.

For some reason your Windows is still showing a 'Local disk (E' after you removed it. Windows is not recognising that the drive has been removed. It seems that it already thinks it has a drive E: so it is unable to assign that letter to the drive when you plug it back in.

To get Windows to release the drive letter when you remove the HDD, try ejecting the HDD before removing it. The 'Safely remove Hardware and Eject Media' icon should be on the taskbar near the Clock. I don't see it on your video, so you may need to click the 'Show hidden icons' arrow to find it, shown as < on your taskbar.

PS: sometimes when Windows is not behaving as it should (like not recognising that a drive has been removed) then a Restart may fix it. It has to be a Restart (not just a Shut down) because that's the only way to do a full boot from cold if Fast Start up is in use.