Windows run out of drive letters
11-05-2020, 15:06
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Windows run out of drive letters
I have an issue when i have all the drives i use on a continuous basis where i have run out of drive letters in windows 10.
I think i remember reading there is no way around this but i'm hoping someone may read it and someone has come up with a way around it.
Thanks.
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11-05-2020, 15:11
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Re: Windows run out of drive letters
You can have 26 surely you don't have 26 hard drives?
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11-05-2020, 16:18
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Re: Windows run out of drive letters
Google(or whatever) it.
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11-05-2020, 17:07
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11-05-2020, 17:37
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Re: Windows run out of drive letters
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Originally Posted by alanbjames
I have an issue when i have all the drives i use on a continuous basis where i have run out of drive letters in windows 10.
I think i remember reading there is no way around this but i'm hoping someone may read it and someone has come up with a way around it.
Thanks.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SnoopZ
You can have 26 surely you don't have 26 hard drives?
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Snoopz A: to D: are reserved.
I have 2 HD Drives plugged in to my laptop, plus I have 2 NAS drives which I have 11 mapped drives, some listed below
M: Music
P: Pictures
S: Scanned files
U: UFO stuff
V: Videos
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11-05-2020, 17:41
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Re: Windows run out of drive letters
You only need a few partitions on several drives to run out of letters. Perhaps the OP might take a look at reducing the number of separate partitions using (say) partition magic and re-organising his data storage.
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11-05-2020, 17:50
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Re: Windows run out of drive letters
You can "mount" drives as folders in windows.
(and have been able to for as long as I can remember).
They have never made this very obvious, but it works just fine.
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/win...ath-to-a-drive
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11-05-2020, 21:36
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Re: Windows run out of drive letters
Quote:
Originally Posted by Hom3r
Snoopz A: to D: are reserved.
I have 2 HD Drives plugged in to my laptop, plus I have 2 NAS drives which I have 11 mapped drives, some listed below
M: Music
P: Pictures
S: Scanned files
U: UFO stuff
V: Videos
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If your data is located on the same logical drive, use shares rather than mapping drives to each folder to avoid using up the letter assignments.
Unless you have a floppy drive installed, A: and B: are not reserved.
C: is usually the OS installation drive.
D: is not reserved.
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