drive letters?

yg17

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I got curious when I plugged in my MP3 player and realized I was up to drive O. WHat happens when you use up all your drive letters A-Z (excluding B unless you really have a 2nd floppy)

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nihil

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if you could, i believe it starts going to double letters. double C etc.
 

Nothinman

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Actually I'm pretty sure it stops at Z, and that's the reason behind NT 5 and up letting you mount NTFS partition in directories of other NTFS partitoins like unix has been doing for many years.
 

AndyHui

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Nothinman's got it.

Drive letters only go up to Z. From then on you need to do mounts and hard links.