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Pat
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      06-06-2009
I have a laptop running Vista with three external hard drives. Sometimes
when I turn the computer on, the drive letters are reassigned without any
changes made by me. This makes some of the programs that I have on these
drives unable to work.

Why is this happening and what can I do to prevent it. I know what I to do
to change them back but it's a nuisance and I'm tired of having to do it.

Two of the drives are connected to a USB hub, the third is directly to the
laptop.

Pat

 
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philo
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      06-06-2009
Pat wrote:
> I have a laptop running Vista with three external hard drives.
> Sometimes when I turn the computer on, the drive letters are reassigned
> without any changes made by me. This makes some of the programs that I
> have on these drives unable to work.
>
> Why is this happening and what can I do to prevent it. I know what I to
> do to change them back but it's a nuisance and I'm tired of having to do
> it.
>
> Two of the drives are connected to a USB hub, the third is directly to
> the laptop.
>
> Pat



Try always connecting them to the same USB port
 
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