Curious about Windows drive letters (7)

1 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-05-12 23:28 ID:3sZr5o1M

What does Windows do when it has more than 26 drives/partitions to access? How do the drives beyond Z: get labelled? In these days with 1000GB hard drives which can sensibly be divided into 10 partitions each, this is a valid concern.

3 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-05-13 10:01 ID:EyHPqyXl

After a while it starts using double letters, if I recall

4 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-05-13 21:59 ID:Ws9JYaIQ

Quote from: http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/f7e61105-8033-4c45-a6d2-9476266aac221033.mspx?mfr=true

Assigning drive letters

You can create more than 26 volumes with Windows, but you cannot assign more than 26 drive letters for accessing these volumes. Drive letters A and B are typically reserved for floppy disk drives. If the computer does not have a floppy disk drive, you can assign drive letters A and B to removable drives, hard disk drives, or mapped network drives. Hard disk drives are typically assigned drive letters C through Z, while mapped network drives are assigned drive letters in reverse order (Z through C).

You should be careful when making drive-letter assignments because many programs for MS-DOS and Windows make references to a specific drive letter. The path environment variable shows specific drive letters with program names.

Volumes created after the 26th drive letter has been used must be accessed using volume mount points, as described in Using NTFS mounted drives.

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6 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-05-25 04:22 ID:4aV1xMhI

Volume mount points make more sense for organisation anyway.

And quite aside from that, people are going in the opposite direction these days. Instead of partitioning a single disk into 10 volumes, now it's considered more elegant to merge 10 disks into a single volume.

7 Name: #!/usr/bin/anonymous : 2007-05-25 20:15 ID:Heaven

>>6
It would be nice if you could state your personal point of view without the unsubstantiated claim that everyone else feels the same way.

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