Windows 7 loses its drive letters and I have to keep manually assigning a drive letter everytime I plug in a hard drive, whether it's internal or external.
The only way to get around it is to reinstall Windows 7 but the problem will come back after a few months. We are a PC repair company and plug in many drives during the say and it can be very frustrating having to keep assigning a drive letter every time a drive is plugged in. Windows Updates are turned off so it can't be that.
Any reason why this would have happened?
Best Answer
I think it probably had to do with the windows saving different drive letters for different drives into its registry. The registry keys are:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevicesI guess if you delete the unused entries it may help... but you may as well ruin the system and need a reinstall if you somehow messed up with it..
so there you go...