I used an external hard drive to save all my work, store nothing on the computer.

[Fla Dem]

For years the port I plug my hard drive into on my laptop has been identified as (F). All of a sudden the other day it started showing as (G). Why would this happen? I didn't do anything different.

[woodsprite]

1. Had you recently used a thumb drive?

Are you connected to a network? Sounds like someone mapped another drive. In my over 30 yrs of computer use, I’ve never had one come up with a new mapping on its own, even when a port failed and I needed to use a different one.

[Fla Dem]

4. No, stand alone computer. But connected to internet via Comcast.

[bitterross]

2. You can change it back to F in disk management.

If you have programs that refer to the F drive and you want to make it the F drive again use the disk management tool

https://support.wdc.com/knowledgebase/answer.aspx?ID=1284&h=1&lang=en

[Fla Dem]

5. Thanks for the link.

[bitterross]

8. No problem. I do tech support for a living

I figured you were probably running Win 10 because it sounds like one of Mickey Soft's regular updates may have affected you.

The letters may may have been assigned to removable drives that are not even plugged in. I've seen that happen. As long as nothing else is actually using that drive letter then feel free to change it.


https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/disk-management/change-a-drive-letter

[rzemanfl]

3. Are you running Windows 10? n/t

[Fla Dem]

6. Yes.

[rzemanfl]

7. After an update it gave a letter to a partition on my my hard drive, changing the letters on

everything else.