Windows 10 In Windows 10 how do I revert drive letter allocation for a specific USB drive so that it receives the next available letter?

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Shaun O'Malley

When I plugged in a specific USB memory stick to a particular PC (Windows 10) it was being allocated a specific drive letter "O" which I probably assigned manually sometime in the past. I've now decided I don't want this drive to be given this letter any more. So I thought this would be easy - just remove the drive letter via Disk Management and "Change Drive Letter and Paths" and Windows will then revert to the standard behavior of allocating the next available letter. Unfortunately this doesn't happen! Windows now refuses to allocate a drive letter automatically meaning that the drive canno

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