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Windows 7 keeps losing drive letters

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Mar 15, 20268447 views
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Windows 7 loses its drive letters and I have to keep manually assigning a drive letter everytime I plug in a hard drive, whether it's internal or external. The only way to get around it is to reinstall Windows 7 but the problem will come back after a few months. We are a PC repair company and plug …

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I think it probably had to do with the windows saving different drive letters for different drives into its registry. The registry keys are: I guess if you delete the unused entries it may help... but you may as well ruin the system and need a reins…

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