External Sata drive will not keep assigned drive letter

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I am running Windows 7 Pro. Have a external dual dock connected to a estata port. One of the drives assigned letter K often comes up as E and I have to change as application is looking for K. Another disk in this dock works fine. No problems.
Does anyone know why this might be happening or anyway to prevent?
Seems like when I go to disk management and assign K it should stay that way.
 

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Terrym said:
I am running Windows 7 Pro. Have a external dual dock connected to a estata port. One of the drives assigned letter K often comes up as E and I have to change as application is looking for K. Another disk in this dock works fine. No problems.
Does anyone know why this might be happening or anyway to prevent?
Seems like when I go to disk management and assign K it should stay that way.
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Try assigning a drive letter a "distance" away from your existing drive letters.

For example, change the dock drive letter to Z and see how you get on with that.
 

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That's good advice from seavixen. Windows has a letter assigned to each port. Sometimes, whatever drive letter you assign-Windows will use the drive letter of that port instead. I have an eSATA dock and run 4 drives in that dock. I assigned them letters W,X,Y,Z. I have had no issues. Whichever drive I put in the dock is recognized as the correct drive.
 

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seavixen32 said:
Terrym said:
I am running Windows 7 Pro. Have a external dual dock connected to a estata port. One of the drives assigned letter K often comes up as E and I have to change as application is looking for K. Another disk in this dock works fine. No problems.
Does anyone know why this might be happening or anyway to prevent?
Seems like when I go to disk management and assign K it should stay that way.
Click to expand...

Try assigning a drive letter a "distance" away from your existing drive letters.

For example, change the dock drive letter to Z and see how you get on with that.
Click to expand...

Sounds good. I will try that and let you know the results. Thanks.
 

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You're very welcome. I hope it does the trick for you.
 

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So far so good

Changed them to y and z and do far it seems to be working. Thanks.
 

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Nividia GeForce 9800 GT
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Mother board
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HP vf 17
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1- 300 GB Western Digital raptor 10,000 rpm
2- 640 GB WD
1- 500 GB WD
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You are welcome. I hope it continues to work well.
 

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    16" Mini-LED HDR600 Touch 90 Hz
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    1 TB NVME
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