Shuffle of drive letters on computer ???

WOW, I have never heard of this and if anyone told me that this happened to them, I would
without reservation tell them they are incorrect and have no idea what they are talking about....
But trust me, what I am about to describe is accurate and not some made up crap.
Hardware: Foreign made Dell, about 8 months old
Software:  Windows 7, Photoshop CS5, Lightroom 2.7...updates current on all listed software. Both Adobe products brought directly from abode via their website.
My photos about 12000 are downloaded and stored on a new 1TB external hard drive, my pics have never seen my hard drive. My external hard drive is plugged into a USB multi-port. This external hard drive has never been switched from one USB port to another and I have been using this hard drive for about 5 months. This external hard drive has always been labled as drive I on my computer, but now has reassigned its drive as K....it did this without any known human action. I am the only human in my house and I have made no known registry changes on this computer. As a result of this reassigning of external hard drives, LR and CS5 and Bridge have no working links to this drive with all my pics. I have considered to use syncronize folders in LR but it does not find any pics to syn since the drive has been renamed and I need to reassign a new drive for my pic folder. I hope you understand what my problem is and what kind of recommendation you can suggest to revert drive letter or just move forward and re do all pics to a drive. If I did not see this with my own eyes, I would not believe it, also please remember, I am not a computer engineer, I am a 50 year old, who just knows enough to make the computer respond to me.
Thanks....

I had this problem on Vista. I do not know how the drive letter got changed but  the following sorted it out:
-Control panel
-Computer management
-Disk management
-right click on relevant drive
-Choose/change drive letter
Hope this helps

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