Computer Problems Again, or I Should Say Software Problems

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Sorry for the length. I need specifics for myself. I spent time here and there since getting my computer back working on stuff for the business. I got May's main banking file reconciled, finally and began working on June's. I got all the bills and payments in for three vendors, which for us is mainly companies that we buy things from or some of the various insurances we need to pay to stay in business. In hindsight, what I should have done was save my work directly to my pc because since it's new it has a clean slate and has lots of room. With my old pc I had to get an external hard drive to begin saving my files because it took up more space than I had left on my previous pc. My hard drive was getting full too and at the last minute, just before choosing where I would be saving my files, I decided to insert the new drive I bought last week. Another external drive but smaller. I'm not sure what freaked me out yesterday, but up to then the external drive that I've been using was in the F slot. The newer one became the F drive. I've learned since that when all the drives are free the computer is supposed to use the next letter that's free in this case it would be F. But, for some reason, now, it is skipping F and making the older of those two hard drives G and it's doing this even if it's the first one I hook up. Is this confusing or what? A little recap: My old seagate external hard drive used to be the only thing of that type in F. I took that one out and put the new hard drive in and it called that one F. I switched which one went in first and which one second for the past two days, and each time whichever way I do it the old one now gets put under G and the new one under F. I discovered that for everything other than my quickbooks back up files that isn't a problem. I can access what I've saved over the years whether the older external hard drive is under G or F, but the quickbooks files I can only access if it's under F, which it won't do anymore. I thought I'd have to take my computer back to my computer person to figure it out, but after trying just about everything I came up with another idea. I right clicked on the quickbooks file in the old external hard drive and hit copy and pasted it into the newer external hard drive which is under F by the pc. I wasn't able to open this file up while within quickbooks, but was able to click on it in the storage area and it opened up that way. The only problem with doing it that way was that it didn't like my password and I had to pick a new one again, for the umppteenth time in the last two days. I didn't expect to be sharing about my computer with you again, other than saying I got a lot of work put into my quickbooks program. And I think that was my main concern. I've done a lot in the last week and wasn't looking forward to starting it all over again from the first of this month. Also, I need to write it down while it's fresh in my brain so if something like this happens again in the future I'll know what to do or can look for this post to remind myself.