Windows 10: How to assign a range to drive letters in Windows 10.1

Greetings,

Just one practical question. How do I assign a range of letters, that can be used for e.g. external flash disks, external ssd's/hdd's or memory cards?

I have this nasty issue. I have two Network Attached Drives, on server. They work fine, D and E. But I also have NAS [DS 716+] which is on NAS drive F:. Whenever I shut down my DS 716+, and I connect some external hdd/ssd/memory card, it always asigns letter F:. Which makes these devices quiet inaccessible, or hard accessible, I can't double click them to open, I need to type in manually F:\ etc.

Is there any way via msc or something, where I can define a range of all external hdd's/ssd's and/or memory cards?

Thank You!

Kind regards

Bryan

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Windows 10 bug - USB Drive vs NAS drive mapping conflict

Hello Hector,

NAS Drivers were assigned drive letters using the Command prompt with the /persistent:YES flag.

Internal SDD/HDD/CD/DVD were assigned drive letters using diskmgmt.msc.

My question is not, how to assign drive letters, but, why Windows 10, assigns a currently assigned drive letter (although not connected) to a USB drive, which then can't be seen ?

e.g. H: is assigned to \\HOME\MyUserId

the HOME NAS server isn't online, so the H: drive icon is shown with a Red x, indicating that it's unable to connect to that drive.

I now plug in a USB Drive. The drive is automatically given the drive letter H:, but because H: is already mapped to a NAS drive, the USB Drive isn't displayed until I delete the NAS drive mapping.

Why can't Windows 10, select the next available free drive letter ?

Are there any registry settings involved with the assignment of drive letters to external USB drives ?

 

Mount ISO image that persists or mount at start-up

Using Windows 10 Home.

I want to have an ISO disk image mounted permanently and assigned to drive letter U - rather like mapping a network drive.

I know how to mount an ISO image in file explorer and assign it a drive letter in diskmgmt. But, when I re-start the computer, the mount does not persist and I have to do the mount/drive-letter assignment all over again.

I know there are 3rd party utilities which can do this, but how do I do it in Windows 10?

Is there a way of making the mount and drive-letter persist?

Or perhaps a command that can be executed at start-up to mount and assign a drive letter?

Or can it be done by kidding the "Map network drive" to map it somehow?

 

How about assigning a static drive letter to your NAS.

How to Assign a Static Drive Letter to a USB Drive in Windows 7

 

Thank You for Your fast reply whs. Well, the thing is, none of the NAS drives is present in Disk Managment. They never were tbh.

 

Then I guess it is not possible.

 

whs - I still though don't understand it. My D: and E: are server shares, it's an equivalent protocolwise to NAS shares. How come that the NAS share is faulty and server shares are okay? Is it because of linux vs. windows environment? [I'm using Windows Server 2012 R2 for server].

 

I understand your question but I do not have a viable answer. Sorry.

 

With your NAS running, have you tried diskpart? If you can 'see' it with diskpart, try assigning them as drive letter Y and Z. These are drive letters that windows will usually never get to.

 

Greetings sir essenbe. Upfront, thank You for Your interest in my case.

Well, in general, my problem isn't the disability of changing the NAS drive letters. I'd like to have D:, E: and F: letters reserved for my Network Attached Storage. I know I could simply change them to X:, Y: and Z:.

My issue is that the D: and E: mapped from Windows Server 2012 R2 works perfectly, but F:, that is mapped from Synology DS716+ doesn't.

Thus, I'm trying to figure out, whether I can change some Windows policy settings and force Windows to reserve let's say range from A: to H: for static drives, no matter whether they're assigned, or not, and from I: to Z: for removable devices.

Any clue whether this is possible?

thank You!

humble regards

Bryan

 

If what you want to do is possible, I have no idea how. I have always used the method I suggested above and never had a problem with it.