Windows 10: If my V: says it's not free to be assigned should I clear the V: or pick a Letter that is...

My HP laptop that had an extural drive ended up being a pain so I just placed a drivein my laptop and know it can not find the O.S.

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USB Drive Letter Assignment not persistent

If you assign or change the drive letter and paths in Disk Management with the USB drive mounted, it should persist from mount to mount. Most experts recommend that you pick a "higher letter" M through V for that assignment (and don't pick the same letter for multiple drives to avoid collisions).
HTH,
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See this HowToGeek Article for more details on what to do and how to make this happen: How to Assign a Persistent Drive Letter to a USB Drive in Windows

 

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.

 

Need Help: Can't capture image of Windows 11 from Hyper-V

Hi @Hemmelman,



I could capturing volume in physical device.

Maybe, you can capture volume with dism.exe.



Step by steps,

1. Boot WinPE by USB storage.

2. Shift + F10 (run cmd.exe).

X: WinPE

C: USB Storage

I'd like to add "D:" for capturing volume.

3. run diskpart.

4. assign drive letter that you 'd like to capturing volume.



For example,

diskpart

list disk

select disk 0

list volume

select volume 0

assign letter=D



5. dism.exe /Capture-Image /ImageFile:C:\sources\install.wim /CaptureDir:\



Please try to capture in Hyper-V enviroment.



Thank you so much.