drive letter no more given automatically

[Elwoodch]

till 2 days ago, when I connected a USB stick or any other USB device, it was given a driver letter automatically and a window prompted for which actions I want to do.
Now (after a windows update?), the drive doesn't receive a drive letter automatically. I have to go into disc manager a give manually a drive letter in order to be able to use the drive.

What happened and how to correct this?

Cheers

 

[FliGi7]

So you went into disk management, assigned a new drive letter to the device, removed the device via the Safely Remove Hardware option, plugged it back in, and it still doesn't acquire the new letter?

 

[Elwoodch]

no the assigned letter remains.

What is strange, this happen for all my USB drives. I had to give them a letter manually via disk management interface.
Why is it no more automatic?
How can I remove the manually assigned letter in order to be assigned automatic again?

 

[apinunw]

Bump.....

I have the same problem. If I plug any external drive to USB or esata port, I have to use Paragon Partition or Disk Management to assign a drive letter to it. It will then show up in my window explorer.

Any help????

 

[richyrichuk]

yeah i get that to on some external drives or pen drives. unsure how to resolve still.