Windows 10 swapping driveletters after reconnecting hdd to motherboard

[mikk809h]

Hello everyone.

I've just by now shut down my computer to plug in another harddrive that i wanted to check on. I only have 2 Sata cables (one for my ssd and one for the hdd).
So i swapped the cables to the other hdd to look into the files and voila. everything worked. Now i just needed to get it all back in the old way. I shut down my computer again, removed the power and plugged my main hdd into the motherboard etc. I started my computer and now there is a new, empty drive with the driveletter F (Which used to be the normal driveletter for my main hdd).
my main hdd still shows up, however it is now under G:\ Which makes incompatible paths for a lot of things on my computer.

(image)http://i.imgur.com/J3QYmKX.png
If any of you guys know how i would be able to swap "back" those driveletters, and remove that empty drive, i'd be very pleased.

Thanks in advance

 

[thejackal85]

You would be able to change these items if you click Start and search for "Disk Management". In there, it will bring up all the drives in your computer where you can designate labels (drive letters) and remove/add partitions, etc. If you need any further help, let us know!

 

[mikk809h]

You would be able to change these items if you click Start and search for "Disk Management". In there, it will bring up all the drives in your computer where you can designate labels (drive letters) and remove/add partitions, etc. If you need any further help, let us know!

Yeah, i've looked through Disk management twice now and can't seem to find this empty drive.
I took a screenshot here: http://imgur.com/ctlEWUA

Thanks in Advance

 

[thejackal85]

If you right click on that F: entry and hit properties, does it give you any details on it? Or is everything set as "unknown"?

 

[mikk809h]

If you right click on that F: entry and hit properties, does it give you any details on it? Or is everything set as "unknown"?

The properties for the drive does not give any details at all. everything is "unknown"

 

[thejackal85]

Okay, let's try a registry trick here. Click Start, type in regedit, navigate to the below directory
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices

Do you see an entry in there for F? If so, delete it and refresh the "My Computer" screen. It should at that point be gone.

 

[mikk809h]

Okay, let's try a registry trick here. Click Start, type in regedit, navigate to the below directory
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices

Do you see an entry in there for F? If so, delete it and refresh the "My Computer" screen. It should at that point be gone.

In regedit under HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices theres only the following:
"\DosDevices\C:
\DosDevices\D:
\DosDevices\E:
\DosDevices\G:
\DosDevices\H:
\DosDevices\M:"

and a lot of "random" \??\Volume..

 

[thejackal85]

Real strange, by what you repeated here, that entry for F drive shouldn't even be there. I would say to remove the "random" volumes, but I am not sure what those are linked to (if anything). You can try it if you want, which might fix the issue, but it might cause some partition problems.

 

[mikk809h]

Real strange, by what you repeated here, that entry for F drive shouldn't even be there. I would say to remove the "random" volumes, but I am not sure what those are linked to (if anything). You can try it if you want, which might fix the issue, but it might cause some partition problems.

After removing those random volumes and rebooting twice, it all seems to work out now. I changed the driveletter and the topic is now solved! Thanks

 

[thejackal85]

You are very welcome!