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Windows 7: HDD Drive Letter Keeps Changing
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21 Sep 2012
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Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit At home. |
HDD Drive Letter Keeps Changing
I just got a couple of new HDDs to make notebook backups (clones) on. When I first formatted each one, using a USB dock, I set the drive letter of each one to U. Everytime I change the drives, the drive letter changes itself to E. I change them back to U but they change themselves back to E the next time I put them in the dock. What is going on here and how can I keep the drive letters from changing?
| My System Specs |
| Computer type PC/Desktop
System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom Build
OS Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit
CPU Intel i7-3930K
Motherboard ASUS P9X79 WS
Memory Kingston HyperX Genesis 32GB Kit (8x4GB Modules) 1600MHz DDR
Graphics Card MSI R7850 Twin Frozr 2GD5/OC Radeon HD 7850 2GB 256-bit GDDR
Sound Card On board Realtek HD
Monitor(s) Displays HP w2207h
Screen Resolution 1680 x 1050
Keyboard Logitech G110
Mouse Logitech M525 (two in use)
PSU Corsair HX750w
Case Antec Two Hundred v2
Cooling Cooler Master GeminII S524 120mm (fan replaced with a 140mm)
Hard Drives Samsun 128GB 840 Pro
Western Digital WD Black WD2002FAEX 2TB
Western Digital WD Black WD2002FAEX 2TB
Internet Speed fair to middlin'
Antivirus AVAST!, MBAM, SAS, Spybot S&D (all but MBAM free)
Browser IE9
Other Info LSI 9211-8i SATA III controller card (eight more SATA III ports), 2.5" & 3.5" Hot Swap Bays, HooToo HT-CR001 PCI-E to USB 3.0 Internal Combo - 3 Ports USB 3.0 Hub + 6 Slot Card Reader, and LG Model CH12LS28 BD-ROM Combo Optical Drive. Also, ScanSnap S1500 ADF duplexing scanner, Canon 9000F flat bed scanner, Logitech 5.1 speaker system, Samsung CLP 415nw laser color printer,
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21 Sep 2012
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#2 | |
Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8 Florida in winter, Black Forest/Germany |
Set one to U and the other to V. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number HP, Dell, Gateway, Toshiba - 4 laptops and 2 desktops
OS Vista, Windows7, Mint Mate, Zorin, Windows 8
CPU from 1.6GHz Duo to i7
Monitor(s) Displays 2x HP w2207
Keyboard with trackball - no mices
Mouse Trackball mice
Hard Drives 5x HDD, 7x SSD, 12x Externals
Internet Speed DSL 6000
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21 Sep 2012
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#3 | |
Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit At home. |
Why should the computer care? Both drives will never be connected to the computer at the same time. The dock can hold only one drive. | | My System Specs | | Computer type PC/Desktop
System Manufacturer/Model Number Custom Build
OS Win 7 Ultimate 64 bit
CPU Intel i7-3930K
Motherboard ASUS P9X79 WS
Memory Kingston HyperX Genesis 32GB Kit (8x4GB Modules) 1600MHz DDR
Graphics Card MSI R7850 Twin Frozr 2GD5/OC Radeon HD 7850 2GB 256-bit GDDR
Sound Card On board Realtek HD
Monitor(s) Displays HP w2207h
Screen Resolution 1680 x 1050
Keyboard Logitech G110
Mouse Logitech M525 (two in use)
PSU Corsair HX750w
Case Antec Two Hundred v2
Cooling Cooler Master GeminII S524 120mm (fan replaced with a 140mm)
Hard Drives Samsun 128GB 840 Pro
Western Digital WD Black WD2002FAEX 2TB
Western Digital WD Black WD2002FAEX 2TB
Internet Speed fair to middlin'
Antivirus AVAST!, MBAM, SAS, Spybot S&D (all but MBAM free)
Browser IE9
Other Info LSI 9211-8i SATA III controller card (eight more SATA III ports), 2.5" & 3.5" Hot Swap Bays, HooToo HT-CR001 PCI-E to USB 3.0 Internal Combo - 3 Ports USB 3.0 Hub + 6 Slot Card Reader, and LG Model CH12LS28 BD-ROM Combo Optical Drive. Also, ScanSnap S1500 ADF duplexing scanner, Canon 9000F flat bed scanner, Logitech 5.1 speaker system, Samsung CLP 415nw laser color printer,
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21 Sep 2012
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Vista Ultimate X64/ Windows 7 Dual-boot |
Go to Disk Management and assign each what's called a Volume Label...then assign a drive letter.
The volume label can be any name you choose.
After doing this it will retain the drive letter whenever plugged in...as long as that drive letter is not in use. | | My System Specs | | System Manufacturer/Model Number Self-Built
OS Vista Ultimate X64/ Windows 7 Dual-boot
CPU Q6600
Motherboard ASUS P5K
Memory 4G OCZ PC2 8500 Platinum
Graphics Card EVGA 8800GTS Vid Card
PSU OCZ Elite 800W PSU
Case RaidMax Smilodon Case
Hard Drives 500G Seagate SATA
200G Seagate SATA
100G WD Caviar SATA
80G WD Caviar IDE
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21 Sep 2012
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#5 | |
Win 7 Pro 64-bit 7601 Italy |
Quote: Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald  Why should the computer care? Both drives will never be connected to the computer at the same time. The dock can hold only one drive. Win 7 does remember what was connected to it. This makes faster plug-play recognition of each device it knows already as it remembers what drivers are needed and loads them straight away instead of looking for them. | | My System Specs | | Computer type PC/Desktop
System Manufacturer/Model Number custom built
OS Win 7 Pro 64-bit 7601
CPU AMD Phenom 9650 Quad-Core (a revision without the bug)
Motherboard ASUS M4A78
Memory 4,00 GB
Graphics Card NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT
Sound Card Realtek High Definition Audio
Monitor(s) Displays Fujitsu Siemens P19-3P
Screen Resolution 1280 x 1024 x 32 bits @ 60 Hz Oh yeah, 4:3 rocks!
Keyboard Microsoft, whatever.
Mouse Optical, logitec.
PSU whatever, around 450w
Case Scavenged from old company PC, 10+ years old
Cooling CPU fan, GPU fan, case fan, nothing fancy
Hard Drives (1) MAXTOR S TM3320613AS SATA Disk Device (2) STM35004 18AS SATA Disk Device (3) TOSHIBA USB 2.5"-HDD
Internet Speed effective max speeds: 70-ish kB/s down 30-ish kB/s up
Antivirus Avira, free endition.
Browser Firefox with FXChrome to make it look like Google Chrome
Other Info Was discarded by previous owner due to "horrible performance".
Was running Win Xp from a IDE drive. Yeah. Was a pain.
SATA II drive and Win7 and it zips away! Yay!
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