Solved Windows Will Not Assign Drive Letter To USB Flash Drive
Problem Issue: Windows Will Not Assign Drive Letter To USB Flash Drive
This is happening on Win8 and Windows 10.
When I remove a USB drive and reconnect it, Windows will not assign a drive letter. Clearly this is a problem as every other computer I use assigns a drive letter.
There are three solutions. All of which will work:
- You can go into Disk Management and select the device to assign a drive letter. This is a manual process and not ideal for each time you plug in a flash drive.
- There’s a good chance the driver or registry entry for that device is rogue or corrupt. Use this USBScrub tool to remove the registry entry. Chances are this will fix the problem. USBScrub link
- Use ‘diskpart’ and enable the automount feature.
- Open Command Prompt as Administrator (search for Command Prompt in the Start Menu, right click, Run as Administrator)
- Type ‘diskpart’ and hit Enter.
- Once in the ‘diskpart’ command prompt, type ‘automount enable’ and hit Enter.
- Type ‘exit’ and click Enter.
For solution number one from above, Disk Management is really the GUI version for diskpart, but with scaled-down functions compared to what diskpart can really do.
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