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    External Drives are no longer being assigned a drive letter

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by gio26, Jan 5, 2011.

  1. gio26

    gio26 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello!
    I have an Asus N73JF running Windows 7 64bit Home Premium.
    Today suddenly Windows stopped assigning Drive letters to external hard drives when I connect them. Same thing when i mount Bestcrypt images to a drive letter. It won't show up in Windows Explorer. I can access the drives after manually assigning a drive letter in the hard disc managment of windows 7. But that's an annoying process to have to go through every time i connect another harddisc. Did this happen to anyone else or does anyone have a solution ?
     
    gio26, Jan 5, 2011
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  2. JOSEA

    JOSEA NONE

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    I found this on another site, hope this helps:
    Lexington Computer Repair Blog Solved: Windows 7 Does Not Assign Drive Letter
     
    JOSEA, Feb 6, 2011
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