Just curious about drive 27?

[osholt]

Just something I'm curious about. What happens when you mount your 27th drive in Windows? What's its drive letter? Does Windows even let you?

Oli

 

[Dark Nova Gamer]

Just something I'm curious about. What happens when you mount your 27th drive in Windows? What's its drive letter? Does Windows even let you?

Oli

Perhaps they just switch into AA or go into numerals.

 

[cloud8521]

..... i must know now!

someone mount alot of virtual drives now!

 

[rev1775]

I saw this on a different site........

View topic - What happens, if Windows runs out of drive letters? • Free Beta Repository with Downloads for Windows, Linux, Apple Mac and more! - BetaArchive.co.uk

 

[osholt]

From the looks of it you require a raid configuration to get past 26 on Vista and 7 but aparently on XP it will go AA:, AB:, etc.

Weird :S

Oli

 

[Kari]

The stories about AA:, AB: etc. are completely bulls**t. The Windows / DOS based systems accept single digit alphanumerical characters as drive letter or rather drive character: A to Z and 0 to 9, so you can have maximum 36 drives. If you want more, you have to mount the additional partitions as folders to existing partitions.

To show what I mean, check this picture. Please click it to show in full size. White text is original command prompt output, yellow text my comments. I'm using SUBST command in this example, syntax is subst DRIVE-LETTER: FOLDERPATH, where DRIVE-LETTER is the letter or number you want to assign to folder FOLDERPATH.



As you can see, the system accepts drive letters to Z: and single digit numbers, but not double digit numbers or letters.

Case closed.

Kari

 

[gladson1976]

@osholt

Thanks to you I checked it out using virtual drives.

Result: There is no Drive 27. It just doesn't go above Z: I'm supposed to have 32 drives

 

[stevieray]

What if you aren't using English? Other alphabets have different numbers of letters... could I get more by labeling my drives in something like Sanskrit, which I think has 53 letters?

 

[gladson1976]

What if you aren't using English? Other alphabets have different numbers of letters... could I get more by labeling my drives in something like Sanskrit, which I think has 53 letters?

You can't. Whichever language you use, the drive letters will always be in english.

 

[stevieray]

What if you aren't using English? Other alphabets have different numbers of letters... could I get more by labeling my drives in something like Sanskrit, which I think has 53 letters?

You can't. Whichever language you use, the drive letters will always be in english.

Darn. There goes my evil plan for world domination! Back to the drawing board.

 

[gladson1976]

What if you aren't using English? Other alphabets have different numbers of letters... could I get more by labeling my drives in something like Sanskrit, which I think has 53 letters?

You can't. Whichever language you use, the drive letters will always be in english.

Darn. There goes my evil plan for world domination! Back to the drawing board.

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The Brain: "The same thing we do every night, Pinky—try to take over the world!"

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[Kari]

I am from Finland where we have additional letters å Å, ä Ä and ö Ö in aplhabet. I live in Germany, the German alphabet has also those three extra letters as Finnish alphabet, plus additional two: ü Ü and ß (has no lower case). It's not possible to use any of these letters as drive letter.

OT: Until Windows 98 it was not even possible to use these letters in file names. Since only about two years ago it has been possible to use these letters in domain names, as this Finnish calendar site shows: http://www.päivyri.fi:



Kari

 

[gladson1976]

When you go to Disk Management and try to change a drive letter, you get a drop down with all the available drive letters. Those are the only ones that are used by windows.

 

[Kari]

When you go to Disk Management and try to change a drive letter, you get a drop down with all the available drive letters. Those are the only ones that are used by windows.

Very true. Although it is easy to prove that a Windows system also accepts single digit numbers as drive letters (see here), I've not found any other way to do it than to use command line options SUBST or NET USE.

Kari

 

[gladson1976]

When you go to Disk Management and try to change a drive letter, you get a drop down with all the available drive letters. Those are the only ones that are used by windows.

Very true. Although it is easy to prove that a Windows system also accepts single digit numbers as drive letters (see here), I've not found any other way to do it than to use command line options SUBST or NET USE.

Kari

When you subst a folder with a letter, it show up in explorer, but when you subst with a number, it doesn't show up
ie.
SUBST Z: C:\Games -> Show up in Explorer as Z:
SUBST 1: C:\Games -> Doesn't show up in Explorer.

I guess subst with a number is for DOS only.

 

[Kari]

Yes, that's how it works. My point was just to show Windows 7 accepts numbers as drive letters. Of course, because you can only use them in command prompt (DOS), it is not very practical.