Windows 10: Windows 10 - Why do USB Drive and NAS drive assigned letters still conflict !?

I have several NAS drives exporting various partitions as drives that are accessed via drive Letters on my PC. The problem I am having is when I plug in a USB drive, it sometimes does not appear as a Drive Letter simply because (under diskmgmt.msc) the automatically assigned drive letter has been assigned already to a NAS drive. Why does this continue to happen in 2018 ???


Is there a solution ?


Simply using URI's unfortunately, under Windows... takes many times longer to move/copy files between resources than when using Drive letters. Though unfortunately with a recent release/path to Windows this has now worsened.

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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.

 

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 ?

 

Windows 10 bug - USB Drive vs NAS drive mapping conflict

Hello,

MY PC has two internal drives that have drive letters assigned to them, and 2 CD/DVD drives, plus one USB Printer Drive (A,B,C,D,E,F)

I also have a couple of NAS drives that I've assigned Drive letters to (H,K,L,P,S,T,U and V) - the NAS drives arent always online, particularly if I disable the internal NAS card that they're hooked up to. Unplugging, and replugging in the drive does not
help.

Now, when I plug in an external USB drive, I find it does not appear, simply because it appears to be getting assigned the drive letter H (which is currently mapped to an offline NAS drive). This unfortunately means I can't access the external USB drive.
Surely this is a bug in the assignment of drive letters to newly plugged in USB drives ?

When I enable the NIC, for those NAS drives, and replug-in the USB drive, it gets assigned the G letter, and becomes available...

What is going on ?