Windows 7 Drive Letters

**lancem** · 22-01-10, 03:48 PM

Hey guys
i got a hard drive that looses its drive letter if i restart. So i have reassign at start up. any ideas on how to fix it?
cheers

**beer4life** · 22-01-10, 04:04 PM

Originally Posted by lancem

Hey guys
i got a hard drive that looses its drive letter if i restart. So i have reassign at start up. any ideas on how to fix it?
cheers

If internal should remain the same.
If external, depends where it's connected and what other letters are in use.
Will come after floppies and then dvd & CDs, then external storage.

**lancem** · 22-01-10, 04:20 PM

It is a internal drive.
I want it assigned as H. There is no conflicting assignments.

**lancem** · 22-01-10, 04:48 PM

i just had a look in hklm\system\mounteddevices and there is no entry for the drive. How can i get the unique id to make a entry?

**Philquad** · 22-01-10, 06:09 PM

change it to x, see wat happens

**beer4life** · 22-01-10, 06:31 PM

Found this for you.

Originally Posted by Uwe

You can change the drive letter assignments in the Windows
Disk Management (Start -> Run -> diskmgmt.msc).
Right click on the drive -> Change drive letter

Windows saves letter assignments, but exactly one assignment
per letter only. Windows searches for available drive letters
from C upwards. So, use a 'high' letter which Windows will
never assign to another drive.

**lancem** · 22-01-10, 11:03 PM

I think it has something to do with the partition on the drive. Windows allocated physical drives a letter using its unqiue id number in hklm\system\mounteddevices. The drive i am using isnt in the list so i think windows cant read its id number or somthing. ill try a reformat.