Windows 7: USB Stick drive letters keep changing

Hi,

I use 3 USB sticks to backup data on a Win 7 machine

Stick 1 does M,W,F
Stick 2 does Tu + Th
Stick 3 does Sun

I am having problems assigning them all to the same drive letter.

I have tried assigning them individually in Disk Management to M: , which happens but as soon as the 2 of the sticks gets removed and put back in they go back to either H or G

I have looked at this thread and the registry fix didnt help either.
Drive Letter - Add, Change, or Remove in Windows 7

I need all 3 sticks to be given the drive letter M and to keep it. (obv only 1 stick is in at a time.)

How can i do this please?

System uses the following drives

C: is OS drive (sata)
D: Is HP Recovery Partition
E: is DVD drive
F: is Storage hard drive. (sata)
V,W,X,Y,Z are all drives assigned to the removable memory card reader in the machine.



Thanks in advance

This is the way Windows works.
You will need this: USB Drive Letter Manager - USBDLM

The only time you may have an issue is when you have two or more plugged in at once. If they are plugged in one at a time, they should all grab the same letter. I use 10 various flash drives and they all grab F for me.

On that note, a USB flash drive is a horrible backup medium. You could simplify your process by getting one external drive, or using a could backup service.

I'm a little confused. You can only have ONE M drive letter at a time.

If the drive letter is used, the next stick takes the lowest letter available (G) and the next one take the next lowest (H). Your comment says "if I take two out and plug them back in....."

That's normal Windows behavior. Maybe I'm missing something.

Have you tried what you want? One stick in at a time? If you assign it M - when only one stick is in - it should remember the drive letter for each stick. I don't know what happens if you assign each one M and then plug all three in - does it lose it's assignment?

The trick here, methinks, is one stick at a time - assign M to it - remove stick - do same for next stick.

   Quote: Originally Posted by thomo2710

I have tried assigning them individually in Disk Management to M: , which happens but as soon as the 2 of the sticks gets removed and put back in they go back to either H or G

I need all 3 sticks to be given the drive letter M and to keep it. (obv only 1 stick is in at a time.)