out of drive letters

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Walt Haisler

Have WinXP SP2. With 4 drives, card readers, mapped drives,
etc., I am out of unused drive letters. Is there a solution
to this so that I can get additional drive letters?

Walt
 
Network drives are assigned letters from Z to A, and local drives (your
hard drive and removable storage devices) are assigned letters from A to Z.
regards,
ssg MS-MVP
 
I have used up every drive letter A to Z (except B). Any
way to get more drive letters?

Walt
 
The only solution I can see is to get another computer and start over
again..

Jerry
 
Walt Haisler said:
Have WinXP SP2. With 4 drives, card readers, mapped drives, etc., I
am out of unused drive letters. Is there a solution to this so that I
can get additional drive letters?
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Rather than map yet another drive designator to a UNC (universal naming
convention) for a shared resource, why not just the UNC?

How to connect to network resources in Windows XP without mapping a
drive or a port
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=311079

The drive letter makes for a conveniently short designator to the shared
resource but it isn't mandatory. After all, the drive designator is
merely providing a shortcut to the UNC (i.e., it is a convenience to
you, not to the computer). In fact, there are times when you might only
want to access a shared resource once or twice and don't want to go
through all the hassle of defining a mapped drive designator for it.
 
Rather than map yet another drive designator to a UNC (universal naming
convention) for a shared resource, why not just the UNC?

How to connect to network resources in Windows XP without mapping a
drive or a port
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=311079

The drive letter makes for a conveniently short designator to the shared
resource but it isn't mandatory. After all, the drive designator is
merely providing a shortcut to the UNC (i.e., it is a convenience to
you, not to the computer). In fact, there are times when you might only
want to access a shared resource once or twice and don't want to go
through all the hassle of defining a mapped drive designator for it.
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Yes, this is a good suggestion. However, the problem that I
have is that some of my software (like backup, and CompuPic)
will not work unless I have a mapped drive. Perhaps this is
a sharing issue or something else or a problem with the
software itself, but with mapped drive they work OK. So
still looking for solution. My biggest culprit is a 4 in 1
card reader which sets up 4 drives (different drives for
each card style).
 
I know that this is an old post so I am responding for resource purposes only as I was looking for something and came across this and did not find a suitable answer to the question...

I am going to assume that if you have all drive letter used that it is out of convenience to you and that there are not programs or applications using each and every drive letter.

So, for network location that don't require a letter assigned to them, the simplest solution to this would be to use locations under My Network Places (Network Neighborhood) which allows users to add unlimited locations with the convenience of accessing them from one place.

Dav

Walt Haisler said:
I have used up every drive letter A to Z (except B). Any
way to get more drive letters?

Walt

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