Windows: What happens if I finish drive letters? (they are 26!)

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What happens if I finish the drive letters? It's just curiosity, but I have a lot of letters and it happens that I float around 20 when I have everything connected

score 68 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 10 '11 at 19:04

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This image is not mspaint. I subst'ed all drives, even B:

Then, I plugged a card reader that has 4 drives. Nothing showed up! So, the answer to your question is NOTHING! You are just unable to add more. Of cource you can use volume mounting as suggested above

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answered Dec 10 '11 at 19:04

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Ahahaha nice! well, big fail for microsoft however! – Francesco Belladonna Dec 10 '11 at 19:43
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If you set your local to Greak, then do you loose 2 drives? – ctrl-alt-delor Jul 24 '15 at 21:45
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How do you remember what is on what letter? – ctrl-alt-delor Jul 24 '15 at 21:48
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@richard for that people use drive labels. Like `Local Disk(G:)` can be labelled as `Videos(G:)` where `Videos` is the disk label and `G:` is drive letter assigned. – RBT Oct 26 '16 at 05:32
@RBT Can I use drive labels in scripts and programs? – ctrl-alt-delor Oct 27 '16 at 14:41
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Microsoft, I love you, you are so smart... drive letters are not a good solution, but as this is what we have for Windows, I should continue as AA: AB: AC: AD: ... – Gustavo Gonçalves Feb 13 '21 at 16:15

score 41 · Answer 2 · edited Aug 17 '17 at 18:46

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It depends on your operating system. Some older versions of windows supported up to 32 drives (mapped to things like [: and `:), but more recent versions do not.

On a modern Windows machine, if you require more than 26 drives, the correct solution is to use Volume Mount Points

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answered Jan 10 '11 at 23:17

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I think your answer is the most clever, thanks a lot, you also provided a solution which it wasn't required but really appreciated (I learnt something good too I think) – Francesco Belladonna Jan 11 '11 at 00:10
I was able to do a driveless mount by using a symbolic link! "net use \\192.168.1.293\my_share\folder1" "mklink /d c:\mounts\folder1 \\192.168.1.293\my_share\folder1" – Milean Aug 24 '16 at 17:54
@Milean ...except that symlinks ain't no substitute for mounts ;( – minmaxavg Oct 12 '17 at 17:00
@minmaxavg True, but it still works as a path to access files on Windows ;) – Milean Oct 12 '17 at 20:24

Windows: What happens if I finish drive letters? (they are 26!)

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