Solved Explorer shows 3 drive letters for same USB?

[I Do Try]

Note that this ONLY occurs in Explorer. Diskpart and Disk Management list the original drive letter for the USB, and nothing else, so I cannot get rid of the extra drive letters via those utilities. How do I get rid of the extra drive letters that Explorer is showing? This is really annoying me!

 

[samuria]

Welcome to the forum does it have one partition or three? Post disk Management screen shot so we can see

 

[I Do Try]

Explorer shows 3 drive letters for same USB

Thank you for your reply. I'm sorry if I did not make my original question clear.

Firstly, the USB drive is not partitioned. Secondly, as I said, Diskpart and Disk Management correctly show just one drive letter (G) assigned to this USB.

My problem is specific to Explorer. Explorer lists this USB with multiple drive letters (G:, H:, M). And, whichever of those drive letters I select in Explorer, I can read the contents of the USB. What I want to do is remove the extraneous drive letters (H:, M) from Explorer so that this USB drive letter accords with the original drive letter (G), as shown in Diskpart and Disk Management.

Many thanks for help.

 

[Layback Bear]

Please just post the picture samuria requested.

This tutorial by Golden should be helpful.

Disk Management - Post a Screen Capture Image

Jack

 

[RolandJS]

LayBackBear, is it possible that a couple of Windows and/or 3rd party programs have by themselves assigned that usb device drive letters H and M?

 

[I Do Try]

I do appreciate your effort to assist. However, I am well aware how to access, and analyse, the results of Diskpart and Disk Management. I'd already done that (more than once), and drives H and M are not visible in either. I was hoping for a more relevant response to my problem, which only manifests itself in Explorer.

 

[I Do Try]

Roland JS
Thank you for your insight: "is it possible that a couple of Windows and/or 3rd party programs have by themselves assigned that usb device drive letters H and M?"

That may indeed be the problem. But have you any suggestions as to how might I track/reverse whatever it was?

 

[Layback Bear]

I Do Try
You can do as you please; it's your computer.

Have a nice day.

Jack

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
See what free mini tool shows for it
Best Free Partition Manager for Windows | MiniTool Partition Free

 

[RolandJS]

drive letter assignment utility - Google Search

DriveLetterChanger or DriveLetterViewer just might be what you need; haven't vetted or tried either one of those, yet.

 

[Callender]

Don't know if it will help but I personally run this from time to time:

USB Oblivion 1.11.2.0

Also check for ghosted devices and remove them.

 

[jumanji]

Hi I Do Try

Try this.

Download v 0.8.1 of the drivecleanup.zip from Drive Tools for Windows. ( You can try the latest version 1.2.0 also)

Unzip it to a folder, say drivecleanup.

You will have two folders Win32 and x64 each containing DriveCleanup.exe for 32 bit and 64 bit respectively.

Remove all USB storage devices from your system (except your Keyboard and mouse) and reboot.

Right click on the DriveCleanup.exe and run as administrator. (Use the *.exe file appropriate for your bit version of Windows.).

After the clean up act, reboot andplug in your problem drive check whether your it still gets 3 drive letters.
( When you plug in your USB devices after this cleanup these will be installed afresh. What you have done is to remove all non-present devices and drive letters associated with them and start with a clean slate. Hopefully that should resolve the problem.)

 

[johncorosz]

If you wish to do this repair without 3rd party software try this.

 

[I Do Try]

Thanks for your help, guys. I'd already tried Nirsoft's DriveLetterView, which didn't fix the prob. Will now try the other suggestions. Again, thanks.

 

[I Do Try]

USB Oblivion did the trick! Many thanks.