Windows Drive letter assignment

[crisp82]

How does Windows determine which is the next available drive letter to assign?

 

[jjones]

I think that's in the realm of the Logical Disk Manager service. If you go into Explorer and right click on My Computer then select Manage, you'll open up the Computer Manager. In the list under Storage you'll see Disk Management. That's where you can assign and change drive letters, etc.

 

[Nothinman]

How does Windows determine which is the next available drive letter to assign?

It adds one to the last one used?

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

How does Windows determine which is the next available drive letter to assign?

It adds one to the last one used?

Yeah, I was just going to say from an alphabetical list but I figured that was too obvious and maybe there was more to the question.