Drive letter shortage

[Bill Wittmer]

With the advent of terabyte hard drives, is there a work around for the
limitatation of 26 letters for drive designations. I have a new computer
with 2 terabyte hard drives, two DVD's, several USB connections, and I am
running three different programs from ISO files stored on the hard drive
with Daemon Tools, all of which take up drive letters. I have Windows Vista
Home Premium, but see no work around for this limitation. I have searched
Microsoft KB finding nothing addressing this issue. I am hoping that some
one knows of a work around for the problem.

Regards,
Bill

 

[Mrs. Gordon]

With the advent of terabyte hard drives, is there a work around for the
limitatation of 26 letters for drive designations. I have a new computer
with 2 terabyte hard drives, two DVD's, several USB connections, and I am
running three different programs from ISO files stored on the hard drive
with Daemon Tools, all of which take up drive letters. I have Windows
Vista Home Premium, but see no work around for this limitation. I have
searched Microsoft KB finding nothing addressing this issue. I am hoping
that some one knows of a work around for the problem.

Regards,
Bill

Maybe you should rethink your operation. Once you hit the limit I don't
think you can double up.

 

[ray]

With the advent of terabyte hard drives, is there a work around for the
limitatation of 26 letters for drive designations. I have a new
computer with 2 terabyte hard drives, two DVD's, several USB
connections, and I am running three different programs from ISO files
stored on the hard drive with Daemon Tools, all of which take up drive
letters. I have Windows Vista Home Premium, but see no work around for
this limitation. I have searched Microsoft KB finding nothing
addressing this issue. I am hoping that some one knows of a work around
for the problem.

Regards,
Bill

I've got a work around - it's called Linux.

 

[Mrs. Gordon]

I've got a work around - it's called Linux.

That's pretty stupid. The guy already has Windows. He has Windows
applications. He runs multiple applications on the Windows platform and you
come up with the most idiotic response?

You should be ashamed of yourself. Now go sit in the corner for two hours
and don't get near the computer.

You'll be hearing from Gordon the Net Cop.

Imagine, using Linux. HA HA HA HA HA HA
What a crock of shit.

 

[Sthief Ballmer]

Em Terça 20 Outubro 2009 00:43, Bill Wittmer escreveu:

With the advent of terabyte hard drives, is there a work around for the
limitatation of 26 letters for drive designations. I have a new computer
with 2 terabyte hard drives, two DVD's, several USB connections, and I am
running three different programs from ISO files stored on the hard drive
with Daemon Tools, all of which take up drive letters. I have Windows
Vista
Home Premium, but see no work around for this limitation. I have searched
Microsoft KB finding nothing addressing this issue. I am hoping that some
one knows of a work around for the problem.

Regards,
Bill

The use of drive letters is just one of the proves that windows is a OS with
3 decades of technological retardation.
Reserving a letter B for a second floppy drive is another example...

I've read somewhere that ther is a solution for windows to access storage
devices trought moint points, but i can't remember where.

google for it.

 

[Rick Rogers]

Hi,

Vista is built on the NT core and follows the same conventions in this
respect as do XP, Win2K, and NT4 before it. There is no workaround for it.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

 

[Dusko Savatovic]

When it comes to NTFS volumes, you can mount NTFS volume to an empty folder
on another NTFS volume.

Example
In your C: drive, create empty folders
C:\Disk01
C:\Disk02
....
C:\Disk29
etc

Now, go to Disk Management console.
Select partition/volume. If it uses a drive letter, delete drive letter.
Right click inside partition/volume, choose 'Change Drive Letter and
Paths..."
Click Add...
Select "Mount in the following empty NTFS folder:", click Browse and
navigate to your empty folder.
Click OK.

Now you can access your new partition/volume as C:\DiskNN.

 

[STAN STARINSKI]

You're insane w/pretence.
What in the world are doing with 2TB storaage, unless it's a Server... get a
2nd computer, instead of creating 32-partitions and running out of
driveletters.

Looks liek you're doing Video editing.
Even with my MASSIVE demands for CAD/Engineering work, I'd not get as
extreme as running out of driveletters.
But I do have a desktop+laptop+3 backup storages dispersed around USA for
safety (to neutralize fire/flood/etc threats). on remote servers (courtesy
GoDaddy.com)
With a combined storage space also in Terabytes.

Still somehow I am not running out of driveletters.
In America sometimes it';s fashionable to spend money, and get the most
powerful "toy" out there, but when you ask these people what for? They
shrug & admit "just because I CAN".
Example:
I could replace my Nissan with a Ferrari to go at 200mph on a local city
street, problem is you can kill people and get ticketed, and pollute air
with 8 cylinders like a criminal.
What for, just because someone 'can"?

WHy do you need driveletters to store all that video p*rn?

 

[Bill Yanaire]

You're insane w/pretence.
What in the world are doing with 2TB storaage, unless it's a Server... get
a 2nd computer, instead of creating 32-partitions and running out of
driveletters.

Maybe he is storing all his PORN and needs 2TB of storage. Who gives a
flying ****?

Looks liek you're doing Video editing.

Again, who cares?

Even with my MASSIVE demands for CAD/Engineering work, I'd not get as
extreme as running out of driveletters.

HA HA HA HA - Your only massive demand is on your Sheep.

But I do have a desktop+laptop+3 backup storages dispersed around USA for
safety (to neutralize fire/flood/etc threats). on remote servers (courtesy
GoDaddy.com)

Storing all your PORN in different locations? Good .

With a combined storage space also in Terabytes.

Still somehow I am not running out of driveletters.

Hell, you can't even figure out how to change your clock.

In America sometimes it';s fashionable to spend money, and get the most
powerful "toy" out there, but when you ask these people what for? They
shrug & admit "just because I CAN".
Example:
I could replace my Nissan with a Ferrari to go at 200mph on a local city
street, problem is you can kill people and get ticketed, and pollute air
with 8 cylinders like a criminal.

Correction: You don't have the money to replace your BEATER car with
anything worth more than $7,500.

 

[Bill Wittmer]

Thanks for the suggestion. This seems to be the best option for the moment.
What we really need, in light of terabyte hard drives, is a change in Disk
Management. I would like to see Microsoft allow a user to go into Disk
Management and when one goes to change a drive letter, a box opens and one
has to ability to enter two letters to designate a drive, such as Aa,
Ab,...etc.

Thanks again,
Bill Wittmer

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

OTOH, Mac OS's don't use drive letters, and it works quite well,IMO.

To avoid confusion, you are well advised to give each drive a unique name,
of course, although I bet the OS would accept two drives with the same
name. I have no current access to a Mac, so I can't verify that suspicion,
but I think I remember it being so.

 

[Tim Slattery]

Thanks for the suggestion. This seems to be the best option for the moment.
What we really need, in light of terabyte hard drives,

I don't understand this argument. It seems to me that with ultra-huge
disk drives, you would need fewer of them, therefore fewer letters. I
guess you're thinking about partitioning them.

is a change in Disk
Management. I would like to see Microsoft allow a user to go into Disk
Management and when one goes to change a drive letter, a box opens and one
has to ability to enter two letters to designate a drive, such as Aa,
Ab,...etc.

Yes, that would make sense. Or generalize that to the ability to give
any name you want to the drive or partition.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

I don't understand this argument. It seems to me that with ultra-huge
disk drives, you would need fewer of them, therefore fewer letters.

I'm with you entirely.

I guess you're thinking about partitioning them.

You're probably right, but I don't understand that argument either. It
makes no sense to have more partitions simply because the drive is
larger.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

I'm with you entirely.




You're probably right, but I don't understand that argument either. It
makes no sense to have more partitions simply because the drive is
larger.

In addition to what you and Tim Slattery wrote, I wondered how easy it
would be for a mere human to keep track of dozens of drive letters or drive
names...

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

In addition to what you and Tim Slattery wrote, I wondered how easy it
would be for a mere human to keep track of dozens of drive letters or drive
names...

Yes, even leaving aside the dozens, I remember back in the Windows 3.x
days having a half dozen or so partitions (to keep the cluster size
small) and often having trouble remembering on what partition a
particular file was.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Yes, even leaving aside the dozens, I remember back in the Windows 3.x
days having a half dozen or so partitions (to keep the cluster size
small) and often having trouble remembering on what partition a
particular file was.

I have several external hard drives with backups from old and new
computers, and unfortunately, also created by different backup programs or
methods. Some are unchanging archives from old computers and some are
(relatively!) recent backups from current computers that get backed up less
often that they should.

I finally got smart (well, OK, a little bit smarter) and made up a
spreadsheet listing everything

I still get a bit confused, but that's not really a surprise, is it?