Every three months or more, the drive letter for the backup drives jumps from one to another

I posted it here because there is no whole final forum for the Windows OS line.  It is a problem that has been around since Microsoft made Windows XP and, frankly, I'm tired of it.

I have some backup players; one that I'm pretty much every day, whenever I have the machine and another every two weeks of use.  I make sure they are always attached to a specific USB port so that the computer does not change in response.  But still, every three months or so, the drive letter handling these jumps from one to the other.  I run a Web site today and use a p2p Manager to transfer files to my machine, but most of them depend on the drive, so I could really do without what is happening every three months... all because your company won't repair it or provide an intuitive, ToolPart beginners' of the Windows operating system, forcing to keep a disk permanently assigned to the same letter.

I know that this is part of basic programming because it is something that Microsoft has simply been unwilling to identify and correct.  I know also there are millions of people like me who suffer from this problem.  For the love of God, please make this tool a priority for Windows 8 and build one for Windows 7/Vista!
* original title - your drive letter management is (Windows, all versions) *.

I don't think that the USB ports are wired so that the computer OS is informed of the port which has been consulted.

I also doubt that you will get Microsoft to change at this point.  As a solution, I give my readers a volume name, and so I don't know which drive is no matter which drive letter that has.

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