Hi, Bob.

You can "name" any folder as a drive letter.

Yes, you can. Just be sure you don't use a Label to rename a Drive
(partition) as a drive letter. That usually is a very confusing thing to
do!

As Paladin said, "You can name your foot a hand", too, but that serves no
real purpose that he (or I) can see.

But it reminds me of the famous Abraham Lincoln story:

Abe: If you call a tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have?
Answer: Five.
Abe: No, four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it one.

And calling Drive C:, "Drive F:" just invites confusion! A recent
conversation in another newsgroup concerned a user who was trying to
reorganize her partitions simply by Naming them D:, E:, etc., by using
Labels. She wound up with things like:
D:\Drive F:
or
D:\F:

But naming a FOLDER as a drive letter can sometimes be a useful tool - or so
I've heard. I haven't done it myself. I can see it coming very handy to
refer to a folder with a very long pathname. But the SUBST command might be
a better way to handle that job by creating a "virtual drive"; type "subst
/?" in a Command Prompt window to see the usage.

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX

Microsoft Windows MVP (2002-2010)
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"Bob I" wrote in message ...

On 9/15/2013 3:45 PM, Paladin wrote:
On 2013-09-15, Juan Wei wrote:
has written on 9/15/2013 12:17 PM:
I'm, by some quirk (anal retentive, obsessive compulsive, other ???)
of my mentality, an organizational freak. I, by nature, want things well
structured and organized logically.
So, in XP-Pro I have the hard drive partitioned into multiple
partitions _- Office Apps, Internet Apps, Accessories, Utilities,
etc.

Why not just use a directory structure? What do you gain by all those
partitions?

Alphabet soup.
Some people get off on a P:/ drive.


You can "name" any folder as a drive letter. Simply r-click it, select
Properties, Sharing, Share, Select Everyone from the pull down and set
R/W. Then in the Tools menu in Windows Explorer, select "Map network
drive" to give the letter of choice to the shared folder.