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• Cannot assign drive letter on USB key

  I use Windows 7 ultimate 64-bit.  A new problem is to occur.  Whenever I have plug in a USB key and try to assign a drive letter, I get the error "the disk management console view is not updated."  I tried to refresh the view without success.  I also uninstalled and reinstalled the USB drivers without success.  Anyone have any additional suggestions?  Thank you.

  Have a look here, it can be useful.

  http://laptop-driver.blogspot.com/2010/12/disk-management-console-view-is-not-up.html

• Cannot assign drive (d :)) Letter

  I shrunk the C partition to create a new partition and tried to assign the drive letter D, but I can't.

  I received another letter from reader at once and then tried to affect angain, but can not.

  Please help me.

  Hello

  Windows sometimes has trouble with discs that are not already assigned to drive letters. Let me recommend a freeware application for download you, EaseUS Partition Master, here: http://download.cnet.com/Easeus-Partition-Master-Free-Edition/3000-2248_4-10863346.html?tag=mncol;1 .

  Let me know if this solves the problem for you.

  Kind regards

  BearPup

• Reformatted a hard drive now in a closed Chamber. Not an assigned drive letter. Installation in a NTFS folder empty?

  Hello.

  I have a few external hard drives. I want them to be little permanent on my laptop or desktop for creating media. The only way seems to be to not assign a drive letter and let windows assign/change it a whenever I connect it or assign a drive letter or install it in a NTFS folder. Currently only disk management is recognizing the readers, because they are not assigned or mounted.

  I have a few questions about the editing of this property. I want to have several drives working independent of drive c as possible.

  If a folder is placed on the c drive: 1. how many resources are required by c-drive?

  2. what concerns me is: these devices should not access drive c. drive c. If the mounted folder still behaves like an extrnal device? Or is it considered an internal c drive folder/position?

  3. I want a usb2, usb3, firewire400/800 or eSATA connection to have the maximum speed, not to be a bottleneck in a c drive thinking that she keeps "access itself. I'd rather have a c drive do it of thing and pull of external device, its weight as it is supposed to independently (or "independently" keepingin mind records temp and temporary files, etc...).

  4 is it windows search for NTFS files if the device is not connected? I guess not, and I would get a message saying something like "cannot access this folder, no content inside" or "please connect the device to access the contents of folder and it is mounted. What concerns me is: sometimes my computer does not start up if all devices are not enabled (usually after an accident, mistake, bad closure or a change of equipment). For example: I need my printer usb2 lights sometimes, or I just get a black screen in these situations. Then I get all the usual startup screens, etc.

  My alternative is to connect specific devices in a specific order to every time I use my computers for the purpose I want. Speed is my main concern, but I know that sometimes I can not connect external in the order because of what I'm doing, travel or I want to conserve their life and do not plan their use.

  Thank you.

  It's just a mount point, a symbolic link to the external volume.  Readers will work like any other drive, but they are assigned to a path to the drive rather than a letter, below all the NT object Manager handles this as a drive letter, the C: drive will do nothing to hold or store the link.  In a sort of way, that it would not much more different to a regular shortcut to another folder on another drive on your desktop, the office is on the C: drive, but when you access the file on the other drive via the shortcut it does not affect the C: drive.

  John

• Cannot change drive letter external (Windows Vista)

  I connected an external hard drive to my laptop (3.5 "), but it can not display in Windows Explorer.
  I have Windows Vista installed on my laptop

  The external hard drive is recognized in disk management, appears in good health, but has no drive letter assigned.
  When I want to change the drive letter, this and every other option is grayed out, except the option 'Delete Partition '.

  All the world is facing this problem before?

  Thank you

  Nielke

  Hi Nielke,

  I'm sorry to know that you still have the problem.

  You can try plugging the external drive to another PC to see if the device works it.

  If it is detected on another PC, you will need to take backup of the data on the external hard drive and try to format the drive by following the steps mentioned above to the PC where it detects.

  After formatting the drive, check to see if it detects is to change the drive letter.

  Hope this information is useful.

  Jeremy K
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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• HP Pavilion m7667c, try to install Vista 32 bit. No OS - the charge not assigned drive letter.

  My HP Pavilion PC m7667c console was at the origin of many blue screens. After several diags that does not solve the problem, I replaced the power supply because the block is dead.  Then replaced the motherboard.  The XP PC operating system will not recover because the BONE had already improved Multimedia Pro XP to VISTA. I can get the VISTA OS to run from my CD to upgrade to VISTA, but the operating system is not found, because there is no drive letter assigned to the drive.  I tried a replacement for the HD signal cable but no help.  I can't on a screen so windows help.  At this point, I'm ready to reformat the hard drive then maybe I could partition and assign a drive.  Any suggestions?

  Hello

  How many drives are installed on your PC?  RAID mode running on your PC?

  Boot into the bios and look under the Advanced menu.  What is the setting for the SATA mode?

• Windows 7 will not assign drive letter to e-SATA drive

  I have a Seagate 1.5 TB SATA disk mounted in a Thermaltake case which has an e-SATA connection. The drive has been formatted NTFS on a Windows 2000 computer and a backup on this computer has been correctly written to disk. When I connect this drive to my 64-bit Windows 7 computer (Gigabyte GA-P55M-UD2 m/b using an e-SATA port connected to the Gigabyte SATA2 chip) Windows recognize the drive where the disc is displayed in 'Remove hardware safely', but Windows 7 does not allocate a drive letter.

  The disk appears in disk management (currently Disc 3) without a drive letter. When I right click on the blue band to the right of the box Disc 3, Windows cross-hatches the white rectangular box below the blue band. When I click on 'change drive letter and paths' I get the following message «the operation failed because the view is not updated...» "None of the proposed remedies work.

  The results are the same regardless of whether I start the computer with the drive connected and running or hot plug disk.

  My e-SATA 1 TB Fantom drive works fine on this computer.

  I would appreciate any suggestion you may have.

  -gyveri

  Hello

  Look in Device Manager if there is an item under "storage volumes", called "unknown device". If there, uninstall the driver to do this and as soon as I reconnect the windows disc and see if it assigns a drive letter. If it isn't

  Try this;

  Go to Device Manager

  (1), look for an entry that says "Unknown disc" or something similar. This entry may not be marked with the error icon.

  (2) after you locate the entry, right click and select "Uninstall".

  (3) after you have uninstalled, press F5 or select "Search the hardware changes" in the action menu.

  (4) the pilot is then reinstalled correctly.

  P.S - I found these answers in other forums showing the same error message. Try them and let me know if it was just a waste of time.  :-)

  Scott

  I'm certainly not one of those who need to be pushed. In fact, if anything, I am the prod.

• Impossible to assign the external hard disk drive letter

  Original title: external hard drive

  put an external hard drive on my hp 630 7 victory, I hooked an external h.d. off a dell desktop comp. and it manifests under disc mng. but I right click and I can't assign a letter... just shows 'change in dynamic disk' or 'offline' or 'help'... What do I do?  been monkeying around trying things and I have noticed in the global disk when I looked that hard drive is 100% free in two partitions... as it does not appear in the page comp. so I go to disc project and then make a right click and when it shows a volume is deleted, what should I do, that make a difference in formatting so I can assign a letter of

  Hello Charles,

  Please contact Microsoft Community. I appreciate for all the research you have done.

  I can understand the inconvenience caused, be assured that we are here to help with your concern.

  This problem can occur if the hard disk is not formatted.

  Method 1:

  I suggest you refer to her below links to format the hard drive and then try to assign the drive letter for the drive and check if it works.

  To format the hard drive refer to the article.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/create-format-hard-disk-partition#create-format-hard-disk-partition=Windows-7

  To assign driver letter refer to the article.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/change-add-remove-drive-letter#1TC=Windows-7

  Important: Formatting a volume will destroy all data on the partition. Be sure to back up any data you want to save before you begin.

  Note: You can check out the link below to see how you can back up your files.

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/back-up-your-files

  Note: If the problem persists, continue with method 2

  Method 2:

  Enables or disables the automount feature. When enabled (default), Windows automatically get the file system for a new basic volume or dynamic when it is added to the system and then assigns a drive letter to the volume. Please follow the steps below to enable the automount feature,

  1. Open the Start Menu.
  2. Type cmd in the Search box.
  3. Right click on cmd and click run as administrator.
  4. At the user account control prompt, click Yes .
  5. Type diskpart and press enter.
  6. Type automount enable and press enter.
  7. Reconnect the external hard drive and check the issue.

  The above information was hoping to get useful, please return it to us if you need additional assistance.

• Cannot assign letter from external hard drive

  Hello
  I have an external hard drive and I am unable to assign a drive letter. I went through the MMC console for disk mgmt, but the only options I get are delete volume or help. Disk Management shows the drive is primary and in good health. (OS: Vista SP1)

  Please help, as I have important documents on this drive.

  Thank you!
  Ahmed

  A few things to check.

  1 Event Viewer. See if there are errors. They can give clues as to what happened with the reader.
  2. check the Device Manager and see if you have devices with a red or yellow marker on them.

• Cannot assign a drive letter using the Vista Disk Manager.

  I read these latest solutions possible, but here's my problem.  I need to connect directly a 3.5 drive I pulled a SIN of hammer to my laptop running Windows Vista... because I need to recover a folder deleted this drive 3.5 with software that only works on the directly connected motors.  Software of network recovery might work, but it seems too expensive for just the recovery of this folder.  I connected the hard drive directly via the USB port.  The system tray sees the device, but the Explorer is and of disk management to assign a drive letter is greyed out.  Please help with assigning a drive letter.  There is only one user on the laptop which is also the administrator.  Thank you!

  In my view, that Hammer NAS units are based on Linux. Therefore, the drive is probably _not_ formatted with a filesystem Windows reads/writes. Making it very difficult to recover the folder removed since all things you could do to convert to NTFS, say, will also make little probable that you can recover deleted files. Eventually, you could use one of the Linux flavors running from a DVD, for example, Ubuntu and recover the file by using a Linux tool or set the drive on a Linux machine.

  Tom

• Secondary hard drive receives the drive letter assigned to the start-up

  I have recently formatted my secondary hard drive, which had been sitting in my empty PC and do nothing for a while, to function as a music folder. The problem I have is that every time you start that I have to manually assign the drive letter, Windows does not automatically. I tried to reformat the hard disk, but it does not solve the problem. In addition, by train to perform a bugcheck gives an error indicating the check cannot be completed. Personally, I have no idea how to solve this problem, and I have not found anyone with the same issue.

  Hi Revolvist,

  There is a possibility that the second hard disk is defective or damaged.

  If the second hard disk is a separate hard drive, I suggest you disconnect the drive from the computer (if possible) and connect to another computer and check if the problem persists.

  Install or remove a hard drive

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/install-or-remove-a-hard-disk-drive

  I hope this helps!

  Halima S - Microsoft technical support.

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• Cannot change the C: drive letter to D:

  Hello

  I got an answer to a previous question about changing the drive hence my stuff is download for C: to D: drive and I did what was listed and restarted my computer, but he remained always the C drive, please ask some ways for me to change my drive C: to D:

  Thank you

  SapphireGamerX

  Hello Paula,.

  I would like to know some information about the problem so that we can help you better.

  Did you receive an error message when the C: drive letter change?

  Thank you for details on the issue.

  Unfortunately, drive letter cannot be changed for the C: drive as it acts as a boot partition.

  Some programs make reference to specific drive letters. If you change a drive letter, it could be that these programs do not work correctly.

  Windows 7 can help to back up the system partition by preventing reformatting or deletion of it, and if the system partition is distinct from a (as recommended) boot partition, it will not automatically assigned a drive letter.

  For reference:
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/what-are-system-boot-partitions#1TC=Windows-7

  However, you can create another partition to save your data and files.
  Reference:
  Create and format a hard disk partition
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/create-format-hard-disk-partition#create-format-hard-disk-partition=Windows-7

  Note: Formatting a volume will destroy all data on the partition. Be sure to back up any data you want to save before you begin.

  I hope this information helps.

  Please let us know if you need more help.

  Thank you

• Qosmio F30-112 - drive is not assigned a drive letter

  Hello

  Once again I need your help. My drive UJ 846-C of MODEL Qosmio F30-112 CD/DVD can not read. I brought it to the center of Toshiba, that they said its necessary to replace, but they told me that it will cost US $266. So I decided to buy it at the other store. I found the MODEL UJ-875 after I installed the computer hardware installed successfully, my problem is when I try to insert the CD once a few second CD comes out.

  I try to diagnouse with Fix it messege was THE DRIVE IS NOT ASSIGNED A LETTER (MAST * a DVD - R UJ - 875 ATA DEVICE
  The drive is not accessible without a drive letter assigned.

  Can someone help me what to do or what I have to return the unit? is this compatible or not?

  PS by the way my computer has been upgraded to Windows 7 Home premium

  Thank you
  rtmasagca

  Hey,.

  Wait a moment, Matt: do you have upgraded to Windows 7 with the new CD/DVD drive or do you have it before you exchanged the drive?

  You get this message from Windows?

  If so, it seems that it s not installed correctly and you should try removing the upper and lower filters in the registry:
  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/314060

• assign the external hard disk drive letter?

  How to assign the drive letters of external hard drives?

  Done Windows that after connecting the HD, turn it on.

  There must be a valid and formatted file partition before he gets a drive letter.

  Disk storage/tools/Control Panel/Administrative management control

  -steve

• How to assign different drive letter in the new hard drive?

  My hard drive for OS window is broken, which is the C: drive, so I buy a new HARD drive, but my original D: drive become a C: drive and new HARD drive is assigned with drive E:, I can't restore my Ghost in new HARD drive image, because the image is restored in the C: drive only.

  Anyone have any suggestions on how to assign different drive letter under cmd?

  Thanks in advance for your suggestions

  Hi oem7110,

  Follow the steps in the article.

  How to change drive letter assignments in Windows XP

  How automatically assign a drive letter by using the Diskpart.exe command on a Windows Server 2003-based computer or on a Windows XP-based computer