External HDD Issue

[Chaky]

I've got a SQL server that uses an external HDD to do backup/transaction logs. The drive specifically has to be the "I" drive in order for the scripts to run.

All was working fine untill I replaced the 5 external drives with new ones. Same size, same brand, different enclosure.

Now whenever I plug the drives in, they do not get an assigned drive letter. The only way the server will see them is if I go into "Manage your computer" and then assign the drive the proper letter.

This is one of those: I've never seen that before.

Do you guys have any ideas?

[BigAlReturns]

Two ideas:
1) Could you edit the scripts to refer to the new drive letters? If you searched through them and changed any references to I:/ to whatever the new letter is then this might solve the issue. (Backup the scripts before you do it though!)
2) I think (not done it for a while) that if you edit the BIOS settings on the server startup then you can manually edit what letters are assigned to what drives. Not sure on this one, but definitely worth a look.