Assign a Permanent Letter to a USB Drive

If you have multiple pen drives you might have noticed that every time you put in your drive it will be assigned a different drive letter.

This can be create problem if you have created playlist of the songs which are in your pen drive it won’t work if the drive has been letter is changed.So some steps are here which will solve your problem.

Ok let's go for it...............

1. Go to Start > Run and type mmc and press Enter.

2. Then a "Console" window will open. In this window go into File > New

3. Then go into File > Add/Remove Snap-in.

4. Here click on Add and select “Disk Management” and click on “Add”.

5. Then a "Disk Management" Window will open here Select “This computer” and then “Finish”

8. Now click on Cancel in "Add Standalone Snap-in" window and click on “OK” on the “Add/Remove snap-ins” window.

9. Now select “Disk Management” from the left menu.

10.You will now see all of your Drives/Partitions in the right hand side panel.

11.Right click the USB drive you want to assign a permanent letter to and select “Change Drive Letter and Paths…”

12. Click on “Change”

13. Select a Permanent letter

14. Click “OK” then "Yes".

15. It will warn you about making the change - there is little chance programs you use will be affected by this. If they will, you will probably already be aware of this so don’t worry.

16. The final step is go to File > Save and save the file in the default directory. Close the Console.

Now eject your usb drive and put it back in. It will show you every time same drive letter which you assign.

There ia also some different step...........they are following

(1). Right click on My Computer > Manage.

(2). Then a "Computer Management" window will open here in left panel select Disk Management.

(3). Then follow above steps from 10th step.