dc2000
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- Location
- Portland, OR
I have the following layout of internal and external drives in my desktop:
C: thru G: are internal drives, while I:, J:, N: and O: are external HDDs used for onsite backups.
Each drive also has BitLocker full disk encryption on.
The key to unlock each drive is stored on a USB stick that I plug into this computer upon boot.
So this setup works in 90% of the times. But once in awhile when I boot up, disk I: self-renames itself into some other letter. This doesn't happen to any other disk, but just that one:
So every time this happens I go to Computer -> right-click ->Manage, then in Computer Management -> System Tools -> Storage -> Disk Management, Then right-click that disk and pick "Change drive letter" and rename it back to I:
only for it to rename itself on its own upon some further reboot.
I would live with whatever letter it renames itself in, but the problem happens then with the backup and imaging software that starts failing nightly backups because of the bad path.
Is there a way to make this drive letter stick?
C: thru G: are internal drives, while I:, J:, N: and O: are external HDDs used for onsite backups.
Each drive also has BitLocker full disk encryption on.
The key to unlock each drive is stored on a USB stick that I plug into this computer upon boot.
So this setup works in 90% of the times. But once in awhile when I boot up, disk I: self-renames itself into some other letter. This doesn't happen to any other disk, but just that one:
So every time this happens I go to Computer -> right-click ->Manage, then in Computer Management -> System Tools -> Storage -> Disk Management, Then right-click that disk and pick "Change drive letter" and rename it back to I:
only for it to rename itself on its own upon some further reboot.
I would live with whatever letter it renames itself in, but the problem happens then with the backup and imaging software that starts failing nightly backups because of the bad path.
Is there a way to make this drive letter stick?
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 Pro
- Computer type
- PC/Desktop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Dell XPS 8700 (customized)
- CPU
- Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4770 CPU @ 3.40GHz
- Motherboard
- Intel Z87
- Memory
- 32 GB
- Graphics Card(s)
- Haswell on-board, 2 GB VDRAM
- Sound Card
- Haswell on-board
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Acer / DVI
- Screen Resolution
- 1680x1050
- Hard Drives
- C: Mushkin Scorpion PCle SSD, 222 GB
D: Samsung SSD 840-series, 238 GB
E: Samsung SSD 840 eVo, 500 GB
F: WD (Red) HDD, 2 TB
- PSU
- Dell standard
- Case
- Dell standard
- Cooling
- Dell standard
- Keyboard
- Logitech K120
- Mouse
- Infrared wired mouse from Microsoft
- Internet Speed
- Comcast DSL
- Browser
- Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, IE
- Antivirus
- Windows 8 built-in