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What happens if you exceed drive letters (A thru Z)
I've never done it, and probably never will. But what happens if a
person exceeds the drive letters A thru Z? For example, I have 7 hard drive partitions. Plus CD drive. Plus A + B (for floppies). Thats 10 letters in use. But some people have 2 CD drives (or DVD). I know a network can add numerous drive letters from another computer. So, if I added a network which also has 7 drive letters, and have two CD/DVD drives, that could mean 18 letters are used up. (out of 26 total). I know other devices can use drive letters too. 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)? Just curious..... (I dont see this happening to me). |
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In message , Nil
writes: On 20 Dec 2017, wrote in microsoft.public.windowsxp.general: I've never done it, and probably never will. But what happens if a person exceeds the drive letters A thru Z? For example, I have 7 hard drive partitions. Plus CD drive. Plus A + B (for floppies). Thats 10 letters in use. But some people have 2 CD drives (or DVD). I know a network can add numerous drive letters from another computer. For one thing, you can avoid the issue for a while by using UNC network names in the form \\servername\sharename to avoid wasting mapped drive letters. Letters for network shares are almost never needed. It's a good question, though - what _would_ happen if you'd used all the letters and then plugged in another flash drive, or had used all but two and plugged in a USB drive with four partitions? -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf G B Shaw said: "Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week." (quoted by "Dont Bother" [sic], 2015-8-24.) |
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What happens if you exceed drive letters (A thru Z)
In message , Peter Jason
writes: On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 16:40:16 -0600, wrote: I've never done it, and probably never will. But what happens if a person exceeds the drive letters A thru Z? [] Just curious..... (I dont see this happening to me). I read somewhere that in this case you start to double up. eg Aa AB AC etc I've just tried the good old "subst" command using zz:, and it said "invalid parameter". -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Reality television. It's eroding the ability of good scripted television to survive. - Patrick Duffy in Radio Times 2-8 February 2013 |
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What happens if you exceed drive letters (A thru Z)
On Wed, 20 Dec 2017 23:38:19 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
wrote: I know a network can add numerous drive letters from another computer. For one thing, you can avoid the issue for a while by using UNC network names in the form \\servername\sharename to avoid wasting mapped drive letters. Letters for network shares are almost never needed. It's a good question, though - what _would_ happen if you'd used all the letters and then plugged in another flash drive, or had used all but two and plugged in a USB drive with four partitions? -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf Fear this thought. You would hear a loud deafening explosion. See a giant ball of fire shoot 100 ft in the air above the computer and find yourself laying about 3 miles away from your computer. Thats when you (if your survived), would hear sirens as your home or office burned to the ground. Worse yet, if that computer was connected to the internet at the time of the blast, every other computer connected to the internet, would also explode and catch fire at that same moment. Thats the bad news. The good news is that Google, Facebook, Doubleclick.com and a bunch of Spam sites would also be destroyed...... LOL |
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What happens if you exceed drive letters (A thru Z)
On Thu, 21 Dec 2017 10:42:47 +1100, Peter Jason wrote:
I read somewhere that in this case you start to double up. eg Aa AB AC etc From the Dos command line, I have tried to go to AA:\ A1:\ C2:\ etc. All I get is "Bad command or file name". Or if I try to go to Z:\ (which I dont have), I get "invalid drive specification". Another thing I never undersstood, is why you cant name drive letters with numbers or special characters, such as 1:\ 2:\ 3:\ or ?:\ #:\ @:\ or the most bizarre of all.... ::\ Then too, there could be À:\ Õ:\ ½:\ or ¿:\ You can create a folder in Dos called something like this. ®¶¼ßÿ using the Alt + numbers to create bizarre characters. Back in the Dos days, I would create weird folders like that on a friends computer and challenge him to remove them. (Not easy to do if you dont know the alt + whatever numbers are needed). And often Windows cant remove them either. |
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