running out of letters for mapped drives?

[Joe]

I'm not there yet but I have 17 hard drives (6 internal & 11 mapped) A & B
are floppies (Not) C is boot, D & E are DVD's F,G,H,I & J internal,
K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,Q are mapped. what happens when I get to Z - What's
Next??

Thanks
Joe

 

[Jerry]

You cannot have drive letters beyond Z - at least using the English
alphabet. (I suppose other languages with more letters - like Russian -
allow more drive letters.)

 

[Joe]

What options will I have? other replacing 2 smaller drives with 1 larger.?
Thanks
Joe

 

[Ron Lowe]

As I see it, these are your options:

1) Use UNC pathnames instead of mapped drives.
You can create shortcuts to \\unc-path\names anywhere you like,
for example on the desktop or in My Network Places.

2) For network drives, Minimise the mappings you have, if possible.
If several of the mappings are deep-mapped (ie into a subdirectory of a
share ), it may be possible to create only a single mapping, to a
higher-level point like the root of the share.

3) For local hard drives, consider mounting them unix-style to mount points
on the root disk, rather than assigning them drive letters:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307889/