I have a sandisk thumb drive that in the past, whenever I plugged it in, would load up two drives, E and F. It would always be E and F. But lately, the drive letters for the thumb drive have changed to like G and H. I don't know why. I can change them back using disk management, but inevitably they will get reverted back to G and H. Is there a way to make the drive letters permanent so they don't change, or at least find out what is making them change?
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Every time you plug in your thumb drive it is a new installation and windows allocates a drive letter to it. For it's letter/s to have changed, you must have added something that windows has allocated a drive letter to and therefore goes to the next available letter. "G …
Jump to PostIf you forget to use the eject button in the Notification Area of the taskbar before removing the thumb drive, it leaves a drive definition in there of the drive it still thinks is there. Then when you plug in the drive again, it requests two new drive letters.
Jump to PostThe thing is, I've never been ejecting before, because my computer would always say that it was being used and couldn't be ejected. I recently got rid of my old firewall and antivirus programs and got new ones. Maybe it will eject now. I don't know why that would cause …
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