After formatting my extra SSD, windows won't assign it a drive letter when the computer starts. I have to use a third-party software to assign the letter, and I have to do it everytime it boots, and it's starting to annoy me.
Can't really find any solutions on google
Is it internal or external drive ?
Did you try assigning letter thru disk management ?
The drive is internal, and the only thing I can do with disk management, is delete the partitions on it.
Does it have any volumes created and are they/is it formated?
Otherwise it's only unallocated spaceand the OS can't give it a drive letter.
I don't know if you misread something in my post, but I can assign a drive letter through a third party software, and when I do that it works fine till I reboot.
Yep, I skimmed too fastI don't know if you misread something in my post, but I can assign a drive letter through a third party software, and when I do that it works fine till I reboot.
Is there anything on it you can't temporarily move to another disk?
I was thinking maybe nuking the disk using the clean command in diskpart:
How to Diskpart Erase/Clean a Drive Through the Command Prompt
Then doing a full formatinstead of a quick one(takes much longer, but is more thorough).
Then lastly run chkdsk /r
Aren't there any other options? The only spare drive space I've got, is on a very old and slow HDD, moving all my things there would take centuries
try just the chkdsk /r first. It will check for errors and bad blocks and repair what it finds.Aren't there any other options? The only spare drive space I've got, is on a very old and slow HDD, moving all my things there would take centuries
I doubt there's anything wrong with disk, must be something with windows. Do you have "Do not Show empty drives" checked or not in Folder options ?
I'm running chkdsk now.
CountMike, what does that have to do with the drive not automatically being assigned a drive letter by windows?
