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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