M17x R3 + Win10 = Have to assign drive letters manually on USB device

Hi guys, it took me a long time to even think about trying win10 on my M17X R3 + GTX 680m and almost everything went ok beside USB ports.

I can connect an external HD usb 2.0 or a 128GB USB 3.0 flash drive on ANY ports and i'll hear the windows 10 sound that i device is connected. It even detect my USB3.0 flash in the USB 2 port on the right and tell me it could run faster on the other side.

Why do i have to assign manually a drive letter inside the Disk Management everytime i connect any external usb device ? I tried the NEC 3.0 driver from the dell site and it changed nothing.

Thank you for your help.. it seem like a small bug but its enough for me to go back to windows 7.

 

Windows 10 has plenty of functionality problems, but I had not heard about this one yet. Once you assign a drive letter manually do you have to do it again the next time you connect the same USB drive to the same port, or only the first time?

 

Unfortunately.. it has to be done every time its connected.

And win10 was installed over my OS as an upgrade of win7..

..it was obviously working flawlessly in win7x64.

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Wow! This is just really odd. Did you try a clean boot and/or fresh install/refresh?

 

You could try one fix:
Press Windows+X, then M for a device manager. Uninstall all usb drivers selecting the option to remove the driver software (if there is a tick box to do so). USB drivers for USB 3.0 are native in Windows 10 (and 8, 8.1). Then hit Scan for hardware changes button and let Windows re-install the usb drivers. Let us know how it goes.

 

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Hey man

This is a problem I faced, ironically under Windows 7 a while ago.
I just found the exact commands to run to solve it. It should work in Win10 I guess:

In command prompt, type "diskpart" (without the quotes)
Then, in the Diskpart prompt screen, type: automount enable

Not sure if you need to restart or not, but that fixed it for me!

 

oh my god, you are a beast.. automount enable fixed it.. i was about to clean reinstall Win10. i learned something today.. nothing pop on the screen but its mounted and got a letter assigned so its even better (I hate the autostart option screen)

Thank everyone for replying.. i will stick to win10 on this pc. i just need to learn how to keep it anti-big brother now.

 

how can you make it work for atheros 8151 ethernet card and DW1501 wireless card with win10?

 

Took me a long time to come back here.. sorry.. i just want to add that the automount worked but i always wanted to do a clean install of windows 10 and once i did.. the usb was working as usual without the fix..

 

So lesson perhaps is that a clean install is always better. I had a 10 upgrade almost when it first came out that went over my 7 and I'm sure it hastened the demise of my 580m although I can't prove it (problems started happening after 10). I had to clean install 7 again and things seemed ok.

If I do have to go to 10 - then a clean install I guess is the best approach. Although, at the moment - I'm thinking 7 is fine enough and there's nothing on my machine that needs 10 eh.