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Drive Letters beyond 26

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by steven.peonio

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I am a huge fan of organizing applications and documents using drive letters. As an example, on Drive1 I have 500GB storage, and I have it broken down into separate partitions. Within the partitions I obviously have separate folders. These folders are then mapped to various drive letters (i.e. Financial Data would be on F:, Installation files would be on I:, etc). The problem I am running into is that it appears that within Windows, you can only have 26 drives letters.

Is there a way to bypass this limit so that I could add additional letters such as AA, AB, AC, etc.

Thanks in advance for any information that can be provided.

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by older mycroft

I've heard some stories in the last 30 years but, in the category of creating your own problems, this one takes the biscuit.

How many of these partitions have you managed to cram onto Drive #1?

How many hard drives does this delusional 'organisation' extend to?

Have you EVER actually read a book on how NTFS works?

I've just checked - TODAY it is 100% of a full moon!! ;)

by charliespencer

I've got an Outlook user who has created a personal / archive folder corresponding to each folder in his Inbox. He has over fifty Inbox folders, and each has a matching personal folder.

by cmiller5400

You can mount a partition to a folder under a volume to bypass the letter restrictions, but I have not heard of a way to do what you want.

by dr dij

to using folders instead.

Use just a couple partitions and organize the rest using a logical folder structure.

for instance my photo albums all start at a root folder of 'albums' then organized by topic - botany, animals, etc.

with a tree down to the specific event level of a shoot.

a terabyte drive stores alot but it will be too confusing and hard to backup if you have separate drive letters.

I once did this back when there was a limit to size of a partition and you could compress them to double the partition. I ended up using up all drive letters. And I was not able to pop the drive into a new computer because of the # of partitions.

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