Windows 10: Manually assigning a drive letter using CMD/Diskpart

[Localization from this article: Manuelles Zuweisen eines Laufwerksbuchstaben mit CMD bzw. Diskpart - Microsoft Community]Technical Difficulty: ExpertApplies to: Windows 10 & 11In some cases, Windows will not assign a drive letter automatically to an inserted drive. For example, this can happen when using a Windows installation media.In that case, you can use diskpart to manually assign a drive letter.NOTE: If your drive doesn't get assigned a drive letter, even though you are in a normal Windows environment, this can indicate a problem with the drive. Please back up your files in that cas

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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.

 

Assigning Drive Letter

I am trying to assign a particular letter to one of my hard drives. None of my other drives are assigned that letter, but it is not listed in the choices. Is there something I can do?

 

Windows 10 upgrade complete, but other internal drive letters missing--cannot access

Hi,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community. Appreciate your interest in using Windows 10.

I suggest you to assign a drive letter by using Diskpart by following the steps below:

• Click Start > type
  diskpart.
• Right-click diskpart in results above > click
  Run as administrator. Click OK for the prompt.
• Once diskpart loads type list volume, press
  Enter.

You will notice that you will see your partition that you use for your data, it should not show a drive letter assigned to it.

4. Type select volume X (replace X with the volume number assigned to the partition in question).

5. Type assign letter Z (replace Z with the letter that you want to assign to it).

After the action is complete, try accessing the drives.

Hope the information is helpful. Feel free to
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