How do the Drive Letters get assigned for USB Ports?
I have an HP Pavilion 6730 computer. It has only 2 USB Ports. I use one for my Mouse. That leaves me only one free USB Port, which I always use for my Flash Drive.
Now ... my Flash Drive has always shown up as Drive E:
Well, two days ago, I performed some Computer Maintenance. I reinstalled avast, Opera, Foxit Reader, IrfanView, MBAM and YouTube Downloader. I then did the CCleaner, Glary Utilities, JetClean thing as I always do after reinstalls. I then performed a Hard Drive Defrag with Puran Defrag.
Afterwards, the Desktop Shortcut for bringing up my PortableApps.com GUI did not want to work. I was fixing to redo the Shortcut when I noticed that now my Flash Drive was showing up as Drive F: After redoing the Shortcut to reflect the new Drive F: Designation of my Flash Drive, everything is of course Cool.
Why did the Drive Designation of my Flash Drive change from Drive E: to Drive F: when I'm still using the exact same USB Port location that I have always used before and that it always gave me a Drive E: Designation?