Solved Can I safely remove Drive Letters ???

[BuckSkin]

I currently have four SATA hard-wired HDDs in the machine in question.
Between these four disks, there are several partitions that contain various clones of my O/S and the accompanying System Reserved and Factory Restore associated with each.
Each and every one of these partitions is assigned a drive letter.
Needless to say, in Explorer, both in the sidebar folder tree and on the computer page, every last one of these drive letters display, making for a confusing mess.

1. If I remove the drive letters for these "emergency backup" partitions, if I ever have need to access any of them, I can go back and add drive letters to them at a later time---- correct ?

2. After I remove these drive letters, then they are free to be used and assigned to other drives --- correct ?

Thanks for reading and all help is appreciated.

 

[samuria]

You are correct

 

[BuckSkin]

You are correct

Thank you ever so much for confirming my thoughts; I wanted to confer with an expert before I got myself in trouble.
Now I can clean up that Explorer menu and make it less of an eyestrain to find what I am looking for.

 

[townsbg]

You can create an empty folder on your hard drive and map a partition to it from disk management. I've done that to minimize drive letters.

 

[BuckSkin]

You can create an empty folder on your hard drive and map a partition to it from disk management. I've done that to minimize drive letters.

You have gotten me curious now.
I have never "mapped" anything yet; if I understand, when you map partition A to a folder on partition B, then instead of needing a drive letter for partition A, the path to said folder is the path to partition A, am I right ?

Could such be used to extend a drive letter across two separate disks; in other words, could unlettered partition B that is on disk B be mapped to a folder that resides in lettered partition A that is on disk A and then work as if disk B were just an extension of disk A ?

I know, I have even got myself confused with that one.....

 

[townsbg]

yes you get to the drive/partition by browsing to the folder and yes you can do separate drives. The only caveat that I know of is that the drive you map to is an NTFS partition.

 

[BuckSkin]

yes you get to the drive/partition by browsing to the folder and yes you can do separate drives. The only caveat that I know of is that the drive you map to is an NTFS partition.

Thanks; I will experiment with that and it may solve a problem for me.