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There are a number of bugs in Drive Mounts that also involves Hard Links. I summarize them below. Where can I report the bugs?
STEP 1:
I added an External USB3 Hub with 4, connected USB3 drives to USB3 Port A.
I assigned Drive Letters & added Volume Labels (example: 'W:' & 'Movies1').
All was Joy.
STEP 2:
Later, using 'Disk Management' I changed the drive letters to Mount Points (example: 'D:\Movies1').
All was Joy except 'Drive Ejection' [see Note 1].
STEP 3:
I installed USB_Disk_Eject (3rd party app) to control ejection [see Note 1].
All was Joy (including ejection via USB_Disk_Eject).
STEP 4:
Later, I changed the names of the Mount Points & the Volume Labels of the 4 USB drives (example: 'Videos1' & 'D:\Videos1').
I immediately started having problems.
- USB_Disk_Eject no longer found the USB drives.
- 'Explorer' no longer saw the USB drives.
- 'Device Manager' had marked the USB drives as hidden.
- 'Disk Management' 'Change Drive Letter & Paths...' would not remove the Mount Points [see Note 2].
The USB3 drives worked when plugged into other USB3 Ports, but not USB3 Port A (even without the Hub).
The External USB3 Hub in USB3 Port A would be recognized and enabled, but not the USB3 drives plugged into the Hub.
STEP 5:
With the External USB3 Hub removed,
I was able to individually plug in the drives and revert back to using drive letters, and
I was able to delete the Hard Links that had been created as Mount Points.
What initially appeared to a fault with USB3 Port A &/ the External USB3 Hub is instead a fault with Windows.
Now I'm back to STEP 1.
[Note 1]:
The 4 USB3 drives are all the same make & model: WD easystore 25FA. As long as the drives had letters, 'Drive Ejection' could differentiate them
- 'Eject easystore 25FA - Movies1 (W
'
- 'Eject easystore 25FA - Movies2 (X'
- 'Eject easystore 25FA - Movies3 (Y'
- 'Eject easystore 25FA - MoviesP (Z'
but when I switched to Mount Points, the 4 drives appeared in 'Drive Ejection' simply as
- 'Eject easystore 25FA'
- 'Eject easystore 25FA'
- 'Eject easystore 25FA'
- 'Eject easystore 25FA'
and I could no longer differentiate them.
On recommendation from 'answers.microsoft.com', I installed USB_Disk_Eject (which includes the Mount Points in its list).
[Note 2]:
As long as the 4 Hard Links existed, 'Disk Management' 'Change Drive Letter & Paths...' would not help fix the problems.
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STEP 1:
I added an External USB3 Hub with 4, connected USB3 drives to USB3 Port A.
I assigned Drive Letters & added Volume Labels (example: 'W:' & 'Movies1').
All was Joy.
STEP 2:
Later, using 'Disk Management' I changed the drive letters to Mount Points (example: 'D:\Movies1').
All was Joy except 'Drive Ejection' [see Note 1].
STEP 3:
I installed USB_Disk_Eject (3rd party app) to control ejection [see Note 1].
All was Joy (including ejection via USB_Disk_Eject).
STEP 4:
Later, I changed the names of the Mount Points & the Volume Labels of the 4 USB drives (example: 'Videos1' & 'D:\Videos1').
I immediately started having problems.
- USB_Disk_Eject no longer found the USB drives.
- 'Explorer' no longer saw the USB drives.
- 'Device Manager' had marked the USB drives as hidden.
- 'Disk Management' 'Change Drive Letter & Paths...' would not remove the Mount Points [see Note 2].
The USB3 drives worked when plugged into other USB3 Ports, but not USB3 Port A (even without the Hub).
The External USB3 Hub in USB3 Port A would be recognized and enabled, but not the USB3 drives plugged into the Hub.
STEP 5:
With the External USB3 Hub removed,
I was able to individually plug in the drives and revert back to using drive letters, and
I was able to delete the Hard Links that had been created as Mount Points.
What initially appeared to a fault with USB3 Port A &/ the External USB3 Hub is instead a fault with Windows.
Now I'm back to STEP 1.
[Note 1]:
The 4 USB3 drives are all the same make & model: WD easystore 25FA. As long as the drives had letters, 'Drive Ejection' could differentiate them
- 'Eject easystore 25FA - Movies1 (W
'- 'Eject easystore 25FA - Movies2 (X
'- 'Eject easystore 25FA - Movies3 (Y
'- 'Eject easystore 25FA - MoviesP (Z
'but when I switched to Mount Points, the 4 drives appeared in 'Drive Ejection' simply as
- 'Eject easystore 25FA'
- 'Eject easystore 25FA'
- 'Eject easystore 25FA'
- 'Eject easystore 25FA'
and I could no longer differentiate them.
On recommendation from 'answers.microsoft.com', I installed USB_Disk_Eject (which includes the Mount Points in its list).
[Note 2]:
As long as the 4 Hard Links existed, 'Disk Management' 'Change Drive Letter & Paths...' would not help fix the problems.
More...