Can I assign a certain hard drive to be always drive H, for example?

Title describes, I have an external hard drive with music on it and it gets much disconnected and reconnected, then my library cannot locate files, because the disc has changed of drive h. drive I have or something else. Thank you

You can do with disk management as long as another reader claimed that drive letter.  First of all, make sure that your drive is connected to your computer then:

Make a right click on 'My Computer'-> manage-> Storage-> disk management.

Then find your disk, right-click on it and select 'Change Drive Letter and paths '.  The rest is obvious.

HTH,
JW

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