Have been using a USB thumb drive such that it is almost constantly connected to a particular Windows 10 computer. This usage made it desirable to permanently assign a drive letter (in this case X:) to the drive. Now it is desired to replace that drive with another one that takes over use of the drive letter (X:). As a result, I opted to perform the "Remove" operation of the "Change Drive Letter ..." action using "Disk Management". That did remove the drive letter but it has had the affect of NOT allowing that, now repurposed drive, to be assigned a drive letter in the conventional manner used by Windows. By conventional manner I'm referring to the concept of dynamically assigning an available drive letter when it is connected to the USB port. It now appears as though the only way to use it is to permanently assign some other drive letter.
Is there a way to restore the drive in question to normal?