What comes after drive Z:?

**yonki** · 07-04-2005, 04:13 PM

Usually you have drive C or a few more if you got more than one HD or made partitions. What happens when i have reached drive Z: and want to add more?Can i do that or is it the limit for windows?If it can be done, how? Already googled but found nothing.

**{I}{K}{E}** · 07-04-2005, 05:00 PM

why do you want 24 partitions

**vivitron 15** · 07-04-2005, 05:05 PM

Originally Posted by {I}{K}{E}

why do you want 24 partitions

well there's 4 * 300GB disks, split up into manageable chunks...

movies
mp3s - me
mp3s - gf
apps installed
apps rars
anime
movies - to be converted
movies - to be burnt
then there's "my documents"

of course a floppy, cd, dvd

and then theres a series of pen drives, digital camera, mobile phone, iriver

thats 16 off the top of my head (well 17, cos there would be no b

so i guess its not a stupid number to want!

im well interested in this...dunno why, but im intrigued

**Afronaut** · 07-04-2005, 05:17 PM

Hehe.
Im interested too but not enought to partition my HD's to find out.

Lazy git.

I guess windows start using 2 numbers/letters etc combo.

**Hanz™** · 07-04-2005, 05:18 PM

I bet knowing XP you get a blue screen.

**yonki** · 07-04-2005, 05:35 PM

Its not for me, its for a server that stores high res images. There are other ways to add the HDs, but this is the first option, and im surprised that i can only have 20 something drives with windows.

BTW i use Linux, so that wouldnt be a problem

**Virtualbody1234** · 07-04-2005, 05:41 PM

With the NTFS Volume Mount Points feature, you can surpass the 26-drive-letter limitation.

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=280297

**lynx** · 07-04-2005, 05:43 PM

You can only have 26 drive letters (A to Z), and that includes your floppys and optical drives.

You can have 4 primary partitions, or 3 primary partitions and 1 extended partition. An extended partition can be split into logical drives (no limit). But since you can only have 26 drive letters you would have to use NTFS mount points for any drives which could not be assigned letters, and since they then appear as folders you may as well just have folders in the first place.

**Darth Sushi** · 07-04-2005, 06:02 PM

Originally Posted by yonki

Usually you have drive C or a few more if you got more than one HD or made partitions. What happens when i have reached drive Z: and want to add more?Can i do that or is it the limit for windows?If it can be done, how? Already googled but found nothing.

Drive BC!