Thread: What happens if you exceed drive letters (A thru Z)
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Old January 16th 18, 08:06 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Uwe Sieber
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Default What happens if you exceed drive letters (A thru Z)
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So, what happens if I had 8 drive letters left to use, and plugged in
two exterenal HDDs with 4 partitions on each. Then plugfged in a Flash
Drive. I have now exceeded the 26 letters. Whgat happens to the last
thing plugged in (in this case, it would be the flash drive)?

If you attach a drive while no more drive letter is available it just gets
none, so you cannot access it. It still gets a volume name assigned (like
\\?\Volume{55564854-1860-11e7-92a5-901b0e5b1e75}\) but most applications
are unable to access files thru it.
You can assign an empty folder on a local NTFS formatted drive as mountpoint
in the Windows disk management or with the MOUNTVOL command line tool, but
this action needs admin previleges.

Uwe
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