drive letter unavailable?


  1. dukeofurl
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    drive letter unavailable?


    I have 3 drives, an SSD that is my boot drive, and internal storage, and then an external 4 GB that is also storage. The Boot drive is obviously C, the internal was D and after a recent reinstall, D was not available for some reason, so that drive is now E, and the external is F.


    Then after a recent crash, some weird stuff happened, a 100 MB partition of the C drive that wasn't there before, showed up and all the drive letters were bumped. I reassigned (With Disk Manager) that mystery partition to W and then tried to reassign the internal to E and external to F. The internal went just fine, but F is not showing up as a choice. I don't have any idea why.

    I tried reassigning it with Diskpart and that didn't work. I read some solutions involving editing the registry, but to me that's a last resort.

    Anyone know how I can get F back?
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  3. Brink
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    Hello Dukeofurl,

    F: wouldn't be available since it has already been previously assigned to a drive. This is done to prevent drive letter conflicts for programs that may look for a specific drive that had that letter when available.

    You could use OPTION TWO in the tutorial below to remove the F: drive letter entry in the registry to have it available to then change whatever letter is currently being used for the external to F: now.

    https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials...ndows-7-a.html

    Hope this helps, :)
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  4. dukeofurl
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    Hmm, darn, I didn't want to edit the registry, but it looks like I have to.

    Ok, thanks
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  6. Brink
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    You're welcome. It's not so bad. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. :)
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