How to tell windows not to use drive letter d

I organized my files and got rid of my D partition. However when I attach an external, it will sometimes use that drive letter.
How do I tell windows not to use drive letter d instead of manually changing external volumes I attach to the laptop.
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Not sure about blocking a specific drive letter. But this program ( USB Drive Letter Manager - USBDLM) will allow the user to specify which drive letter(s) they want to assign to USB connected devices. I know there's a separate process to go thru for network connected drives as well, but that's only for Windows Server. Hopefully USBDLM will solve your issue, cause I think the way disk manager is set up, it will assign the first available drive letter to the newly mounted drive.

 

I have not tried this but it seems to make sense : How to Assign a Static Drive Letter to a USB Drive in Windows 7

 

If I recall or memory serves me C is reserved for the O/S and you can't remove that setting I think. But for any other extra drives attached it uses the next available Drive assignment letter by default. And unless that D: is assigned to a drive it will be available for the next device aka CD\DVD drive.

 

Yes, this is how I do it. It’s a long way around to get to drive manage but it works.

 

Yep, just right click computer, manage, disk management, right click the drive and change drive letters and paths. done.

 

..until you insert a new drive windows doesn't recognize.

But you can reserve d: as a letter-assignment with usbdlm (at least for drives that are marked external).

..What about asking about something easier - like herding cats, for example?

 

thanks guys.
yup i changed my sd to drive a, i thought i would have to do this for every sd card i have (like an external hdd), but apparently the drive letter sticks.

ill check out usbdlm...

 

Well, ya win some, ya lose some.