Maximum Number of Drives Supported?

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What is the maximum number of drives supported by XP Home (w/ SP2)? With two
partitioned hard drives and various card readers... I am up to drive letter
"V:". Will XP recognize more?
 
26 drive LETTERS are supported, drives themselves is merely a matter of
being able to connect them.
 
Denise said:
What is the maximum number of drives supported by XP Home (w/ SP2)? With
two partitioned hard drives and various card readers... I am up to drive
letter "V:". Will XP recognize more?
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You can have up to 26 block devices in Windows before you can't have any
more due to the alphabet running out at Z: and poor design choices made in
1980 which were never later fixed.
 
Denise said:
What is the maximum number of drives supported by XP Home (w/ SP2)?
With two partitioned hard drives and various card readers... I am up
to drive letter "V:". Will XP recognize more?
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You can get to devices by using UNC (Universal Naming Convention) instead of
letters. That is:

\\device-name\share-name

Using a drive letter is but a shortcut for assignin a "letter" to a UNC. In
other words, UNC is a super-set of drive letters.
 
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