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Title: 'auto assign drive letters' fails on external HDD
Post by: tw372 on April 16, 2015, 10:54:19 am

http://www.tweaking.com/content/page/auto_assign_drive_letters.html

This utility functions correctly if a USB memory stick is inserted, but it does not work if a bare SATA hard drive is connected through a USB adapter.  Multiple adapters from different vendors were tested with the same result.

Notes:

• In all cases the adapter driver was automatically installed by Microsoft update servers
• The hard drive appears in Device Manager / Disk Drives
• The volume appears in Computer Management / Storage
• The volume is accessible through Windows Explorer if a drive letter is manually assigned in Computer Management.

I understand that this program is only supposed to enable a feature of Windows, not provide additional functionality.  I just want to know if Windows is technically capable of auto-mounting volumes on hard drives which are connected through a USB adapter... and if so, what is the command to enable this feature.

Title: Re: 'auto assign drive letters' fails on external HDD
Post by: Shane on April 16, 2015, 06:23:41 pm

Thats odd, I connect hard drives to my usb adapter all the time and windows gives it a drive letter every time.

Open a cmd.exe as administrator then type in

diskpart

Once done and in diskpart just put in
automount enable

that is what my program does. :wink:
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753703.aspx

Shane