Forgets drive letter

WD External and Portable SSD External SSD for Windows
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I have a 3TB WD Elements drive that I use for backups. I keep it unpowered until I use it (weekly). When I power it up, Disk Management shows it but forgets it’s drive letter. Is there a solution?

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The possible causes for such an issue can be an incompatible file system, missing drive letter, disk driver issues, damaged partition issues on the hard drive. In a worst-case, the drive itself is failing.

You can try the below fixes to resolve the issue:

  1. Initialize the drive or drive partition
  2. Change/Assign drive letter
  3. Update Disk drivers
  4. Enable drive in BIOS

Hope it helps!