External Hard Drive

[BIGDOGY]

My external hard drive designated (K:) has twice spontainiously changed to (L:) for no reason, during which I cannot access it, with a system restore being the only solution.
Any one have any idea why this is happening and how to stop it happening again?

[squarebear]

Do you have a USB memory stick plugged in as well? These can sometimes grab a letter. Removing it and rebooting should cure it.

[BIGDOGY]

Interesting squarebear dont have usb stick but have just got a new phone I charge from puter and on reflection it may be occuring after a charge. I'll have to put it to the test>

[squarebear]

Yes, it may be grabbing a drive letter so you can download files from it to your computer. Try it and see.

As I say though, if it does grab K:, just unplug the phone and reboot and everything should be ok.

[ChuckFickens]

Or plug your phone in and then use disk management to assign that a letter higher up that isn't used, then your phone will always take the higher letter leaving K free for the USB drive.

This is for windows XP, if you have a different version of windows just google "disk management {your version of windows}"

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307844

[AlBags]

You can also lock the drive letter assignment, if it becomes a problem.