Windows 10: Internal drive appearing with 2 different letter paths how to fix??

was using a pbo manager and outdated software to make vehicles for a video game but now my one internal SSD is appearing 2 time with 2 different letter paths and I can't seem to undo this or fix i have deleted all apps that could cause this issue and rebooted the pc is there a way to fix this without reformatting as i have Gb worth of data id have to move its 1tb in size

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How to backup Windows 10 to separate internal hard drive?

Hi,

I understand the inconvenience caused.

Did you try assigning a different drive letter for the internal drive and checked if the issue persists?

If not, follow the steps below:

1. Press Windows key + R to open the run command.

2. Type diskmgmt.msc and press enter to open disk management.

3. Right click on the internal drive and select "assign different drive letter and paths".

4. Click "change" and choose a different drive letter from the drop down list.

5. Save the changes and check the functionality.

Let us know the result.

 

Internal Storage Devices swap drive letters

The machine has a M.2 PCLe NVMe SSD (the system drive), an internal HDD storage drive, and an internal optical drive
The SATA controller was set as RAID at the factory. I never enabled RAID on the system by any means to create RAID volumes.

The BIOS lets me change the SATA Controller to RAID or to AHCI.
I recently made the change from RAID to AHCI in the BIOS using safemode boot procedure steps.

Something I didn’t expect happening during this change was the internal optical Drive and the internal HDD swapping drive letters.
Maybe I’m being a little overly apprehensive. If the data can't be restored one day for whatever reason, would keeping the drive letters the way they are assigned now and making all new backups of personal data, and creating new DVD rescue disks, and new backup DVD’s be the more prudent step to ensure the data integrity for the lack of a better term ?

It's easy to reassign the drive letters following the excellent tutorial
“Change and Assign Drive Letter in Windows 10 by @Brink which offers a way for correcting this on-board SATA port redirection that maybe occurred or whatever, except.....
every DVD burned, every personal file ever backed up on the external drive using SyncBackFree, the rescue DVD, all originally created with the opposite drive letters, draws concern of potential file unrestorability, and DVD data unreliability.

I only mention my skepticism changing the drive letter of a storage device back to what it originally was and potentially not being able to restore back ups only because some have attested that trying to restore personal files to the internal HDD lead to headaches.

Any comments and suggestions are welcomed and appreciated.

Not to get off the subject but,
The Storage controller driver that installed is a Standard Microsoft NVMe driver. Any suggestions on this generic driver are also very much appreciated.

 

File Explorer is showing 2 different drive letters for the same Hard Drive. How do I delete the 2nd one?

You can delete the extra drive letter using the Disk Management tool in Windows. Here are the steps on how to do it:

1. Open Disk Management. You can do this by pressing Windows+X on your keyboard and selecting "Disk Management".
   
2. Right-click on the drive that has the extra drive letter and select "Change Drive Letter and Paths".
   
3. In the "Change Drive Letter and Paths" dialog box, select the extra drive letter and click the "Remove" button.
   
4. Click the "Yes" button to confirm.
   
5. The extra drive letter will be removed and the drive will only have the original drive letter.
   

Here are some additional things to keep in mind:

• The extra drive letter may have been assigned by a third-party program. If you are not sure where the extra drive letter came from, you can try uninstalling any programs that you recently installed.
  
• If you delete the extra drive letter, any files that are stored on the drive will still be there. You will need to manually delete the files if you want to remove them.