[SOLVED] Reconfigure Change drive letter and paths after Fresh Windows 11 Install.

[iTRiP]

Just remembered I wanted to post something about this.

Seems windows 11 does not remember or cant read what a drive's last drive letter and path was in a previous install, when entering OS after formatting and fresh installing.

Not really a problem if you know witch drive and volume is witch, [quick rectifications in the drive management and all is set again]

But I believe this could be resolved, wasn't a problem in previous installs of Win.

 

[USAFRet]

This is the secondary drives?
My Win 11 has no problem with this, either internal or external USB things.

 

[iTRiP]

This is the secondary drives?
My Win 11 has no problem with this, either internal or external USB things.

Yes, secondary drives E:\,F:\,G:\, all have different drive letter allocations than what they had after formatting C:\.

I have verified this, seen it happen two times already.

 

[hotaru.hino]

Drive letter assignments don't carry over between installs if you changed them from their defaults. I believe Windows goes through storage drives in some order (it's always the same order per motherboard) and assigns the first available letter.

 

[iTRiP]

Drive letter assignments don't carry over between installs if you changed them from their defaults. I believe Windows goes through storage drives in some order (it's always the same order per motherboard) and assigns the first available letter.

Oh, yes quite right, must be indeed, I have been running the same setup for so long now that I had probably forgotten that I had changed drive letter and paths upon entering fresh install last time around, probably because I wanted the disks and volumes in the correct order for what I'm using them for.

Thanks for the clearing up what might have caused this, totally slipped my mind that I was self at change, ahah, thought it was something wrong with windows.

 

[USAFRet]

I misread that.

I thought by "install", you meant connecting the drive.
With installing the OS, yes, drive letters are completely reassigned.

 

[iTRiP]

I misread that.

I thought by "install", you meant connecting the drive.
With installing the OS, yes, drive letters are completely reassigned.

So it is true that windows 10 and windows 11 differ with this.
I knew it, but now I'm still stuck with reassigning letters and paths every new OS install, until it's changed back to the way it was before, but like I said isn't a big deal to take care of this knowing what your partitions and volumes consist of and the order in witch you want to utilize the drives.

 

[USAFRet]

So it is true that windows 10 and windows 11 differ with this.
I knew it, but now I'm still stuck with reassigning letters and paths every new install.

No, they do NOT differ.
A reinstall of Win 11, the drive letters are not retained. Just like with Win 10.

 

[iTRiP]

No, they do NOT differ.
A reinstall of Win 11, the drive letters are not retained. Just like with Win 10.

I know for a fact that my drive letter remained the same with a fresh win 10 install and now it's not like that with win 11. (because I formatted & reinstalled like a million times I would not be unsure about this)
Why else do you think I'm posting about this, not just for the fun of it but because it struck me odd.

 

[USAFRet]

I know for a fact that my drive letter remained the same with a fresh win 10 install and now it's not like that with win 11.
Why else do you think I'm posting about this, not just for the fun of it but because it struck me odd.

'Can get reassigned' is not the same as 'always gets reassigned'.

A drive that was D before will probably be D again.
Especially if plugged into the same port.

But this is not guaranteed.

 

[iTRiP]

'Can get reassigned' is not the same as 'always gets reassigned'.

A drive that was D before will probably be D again.
Especially if plugged into the same port.

But this is not guaranteed.

if that's a fact then it's still best method to know beforehand what data is on witch storage hardware when doing a format and fresh install.

 

[USAFRet]

if that's a fact then it's still best method to know beforehand what data is on witch storage hardware when doing a format and fresh install.

Yes.
You should always know what is on which drive.

Before I do any OS reinstall, I make a careful note of what is where.
Often, changing the Volume name to contain the old drive letter.

For instance, I lebel the drives/and its partition by the drive type.
660p, or 860EVO
I might change that to 660p_H and 860EVO_L
The H and L are the drive letters they had before the OS reinstall.
After the install, I can assign them the old letters.

Of course, the contents of those secondary drives won't be touched during the install, because those drives are offline during that process.

 

[iTRiP]

Yes.
You should always know what is on which drive.

Before I do any OS reinstall, I make a careful note of what is where.
Often, changing the Volume name to contain the old drive letter.

For instance, I lebel the drives/and its partition by the drive type.
660p, or 860EVO
I might change that to 660p_H and 860EVO_L
The H and L are the drive letters they had before the OS reinstall.
After the install, I can assign them the old letters.

Of course, the contents of those secondary drives won't be touched during the install, because those drives are offline during that process.

Yes indeed, Interesting. What I do is note the used and free space on each then without labels sort things out this way.

 

[iTRiP]

You know windows is still doing this odd behavior, doesn't matter anyway because I have readapted.

Just noticed this again the other day, It's not like I'm uninstalling the hardware and putting it in a new pc or am I? ( could be seen that way cause the pc gets a new Device ID every time), well any ways I haven't installed windows 10 again, so I cant know If with that OS such changes would not accour.