View Full Version : What happens when you run out of letters?
Skillz
03-04-2008, 09:58 PM
So what happens when you run out of drive letters from having too many hard drives (network drives too)? c - z for hdds, what happens after z?
Grentz
03-04-2008, 10:37 PM
Your sh#t out of luck as they say.
Honestly you should never really get to the limit. Either unmap some drives, RAID some drives, or upgrade to bigger drives to take the place of multiple smaller ones.
You also can mount the drives to a directory instead of a drive letter in the disk management area.
GushpinBob
03-04-2008, 10:41 PM
I'm curious about that as well ... except in Linux
What happens after hdz or sdz?
maliclipse
03-05-2008, 12:51 AM
You can mount harddrives or luns under folders in NTFS.
As far as linux is concerned it starts numbering past sda/hda like sdaa/hdaa
Mortagen
03-05-2008, 07:06 AM
really?
Rocco123
03-05-2008, 09:36 AM
really?
No, he was just messing with you.
Yes, really., You can mount disks in a subfolder within another drive. You have to covert both drives to dynamic, however. Can't do it with basic disks.
Ockie
03-05-2008, 09:42 AM
I ran out of letters on a lot of occasions, so I was forced to mount under other directories. Now I'm on raid, so much better :D
big poppa pump
03-05-2008, 12:07 PM
No, he was just messing with you.
Yes, really., You can mount disks in a subfolder within another drive. You have to covert both drives to dynamic, however. Can't do it with basic disks.
You do not need to convert the drives to dynamic to do a folder mount. They can be done with just basic disks.
You do not need to convert the drives to dynamic to do a folder mount. They can be done with just basic disks.
Yep.
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