Windows 10: Win Explorer 'forgets' drive-letter

Windows Explorer will not show any (usb-flash/external HD-) drive with the letter H. The drive is recognized by Windows: it does show up in Disk Management.
What I did, months ago, is delete (merge) a hard drive partition - drive letter assignment of this partition was H.
Apparently the H-assignment got lost somehow somewhere.
The practical issue is: whenever I use a usb stick, Windows assigns the first available/free drive letter - which is H. I then have to go to disk management, change H into some other letter, after which the usb stick show up in Win Explorer.
Tried my best to find a solution for this. Wasn't lucky.

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Samsung M3 portable hard drive not getting recognised on Windows 10.

Hi!

This is resolved by going to Disk Management, right click on the drive, and using "Change Drive Letter and Path"

Win 10 then shows drive in expoler

BUT!

Once you restart, Win10 "forgets" the drive and you need to go through process of assigning drive letter every time

Please advise how to resolve this

thank you

 

HDDs Listed Twice in File Explorer & Device Manager

I did a clean install of win 10 on a new SSD. Everything appears to have gone well except the assigning of drive letters. I have 4 HDDs that were assigned drive letters E, F, G, & H in win 7. When I added them to the win 10 install they were assigned
drive letters J – M and the USB3 drives were assigned drive letters D – G. I need my HDDs to have drive letters E – H because some of my software expects data to be on those drives. In Disk Management I changed the drive letters of the HDDs and USBs to
reflect drive letters of E – H for the HDDs. While looking at File Explorer I discovered that the HDDs are all listed twice. I looked in Device Manager and the HDDs and the USBs are listed there as Disk Drives and as Portable Devices.

The USBs don’t show up in File Explorer unless there is a drive plugged into them, although the box in Folder Options “Hide empty drives” is not checked.

Is anyone out there aware of this problem and a solution for it?

My hardware is Intel i7 3770 on an ASUS p8z77 - v pro motherboard.