Windows 8.1 Upgrade from Windows 8: Automount Disabled

[writhziden]

I updated Windows 8 to Windows 8.1 on two systems. On both systems, I noticed external devices stopped being assigned a drive letter and I had to assign it manually. I have now re-enabled automount through Diskpart after finding out that it was disabled by using the automount command in Diskpart.

In an elevated command prompt:

C:\Users\Mike>Diskpart
DISKPART> automount

Automatic mounting of new volumes disabled.

DISKPART> automount enable

Automatic mounting of new volumes enabled.

Just thought I would share my experience in case others who upgraded to Windows 8.1 encountered the same problem.

 

[Ztruker]

Found this:

To see if the automount feature is enabled, type:

automount

To enable the automount feature, type:

automount enable

To disable the automount feature, type:

automount disable

I verified that automount by itself is a query, deosn't change anything:

>diskpart

Microsoft DiskPart version 6.2.9200

Copyright (C) 1999-2012 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: DESKTOP

DISKPART> automount

Automatic mounting of new volumes enabled.

 

[writhziden]

Thank you for clarifying my original post.

 

[Ztruker]

I was curious as I'd never heard of automount. I also found this which I may try just for the heck of it:

automount scrub

Removes volume mount point directories and registry settings for volumes that are no longer in the system. This prevents volumes that were previously in the system from being automatically mounted and given their former volume mount point(s) when they are added back to the system.

I wonder if that might even fix some USB mount problems??????