Guest Noviez Posted October 4, 2008 Posted October 4, 2008 Hi all wats procedure to create drives more than Z:... i brought a new hard disk and created some 3 partitions out of its 150 gb now i cannot assign drive letters cos windows XP is not allowing me to create drive with letters more than Z: ??
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted October 4, 2008 Posted October 4, 2008 Re: Creating more than 26 drives... "Noviez" <hunterinthehorizon@lin.com> wrote in message news:On6yJHkJJHA.2444@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > Hi all wats procedure to create drives more than Z:... > > i brought a new hard disk and created some 3 partitions out of its 150 gb > now i cannot assign drive letters cos windows XP is not allowing me to > create drive with letters more than Z: ?? You can't. Use folders instead of drives.
Guest philo Posted October 4, 2008 Posted October 4, 2008 Re: Creating more than 26 drives... "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com.oz> wrote in message news:e3AXMOkJJHA.728@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > > "Noviez" <hunterinthehorizon@lin.com> wrote in message > news:On6yJHkJJHA.2444@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > > Hi all wats procedure to create drives more than Z:... > > > > i brought a new hard disk and created some 3 partitions out of its 150 gb > > now i cannot assign drive letters cos windows XP is not allowing me to > > create drive with letters more than Z: ?? > > You can't. Use folders instead of drives. > > Well you can use more than 26 drives if you *mount* add'l drives within folders: it's been asked before here (and elsewhere) : http://www.ozzu.com/mswindows-forum/more-than-drives-t61819.html
Guest Noviez Posted October 4, 2008 Posted October 4, 2008 Re: Creating more than 26 drives... Thnx for the tip .. will it by an affect the drive where the mounting folder is present ?? i havent tried this yet.. just want to make sure it is ok to mount it on folders.. "philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message news:uP6ygVkJJHA.1556@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > > "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com.oz> wrote in message > news:e3AXMOkJJHA.728@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> >> "Noviez" <hunterinthehorizon@lin.com> wrote in message >> news:On6yJHkJJHA.2444@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> > Hi all wats procedure to create drives more than Z:... >> > >> > i brought a new hard disk and created some 3 partitions out of its 150 > gb >> > now i cannot assign drive letters cos windows XP is not allowing me to >> > create drive with letters more than Z: ?? >> >> You can't. Use folders instead of drives. >> >> > > Well you can use more than 26 drives if you *mount* add'l drives within > folders: > > it's been asked before here (and elsewhere) : > > http://www.ozzu.com/mswindows-forum/more-than-drives-t61819.html > >
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted October 4, 2008 Posted October 4, 2008 Re: Creating more than 26 drives... "philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message news:uP6ygVkJJHA.1556@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > > "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com.oz> wrote in message > news:e3AXMOkJJHA.728@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> >> "Noviez" <hunterinthehorizon@lin.com> wrote in message >> news:On6yJHkJJHA.2444@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >> > Hi all wats procedure to create drives more than Z:... >> > >> > i brought a new hard disk and created some 3 partitions out of its 150 > gb >> > now i cannot assign drive letters cos windows XP is not allowing me to >> > create drive with letters more than Z: ?? >> >> You can't. Use folders instead of drives. >> >> > > Well you can use more than 26 drives if you *mount* add'l drives within > folders: > > it's been asked before here (and elsewhere) : > > http://www.ozzu.com/mswindows-forum/more-than-drives-t61819.html > Agreed, but I wonder about the point of the exercise. Now the OP creates numerous partitions, then he links them to various folders on one of his drives. I thought it would be much simpler to have few partitions and have the respective folders on each partition. The end result is exactly the same but three partitions are much easier to manage than 23 . . .
Guest philo Posted October 5, 2008 Posted October 5, 2008 Re: Creating more than 26 drives... "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com.oz> wrote in message news:e9WTlUlJJHA.728@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > > "philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message > news:uP6ygVkJJHA.1556@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > > > > "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com.oz> wrote in message > > news:e3AXMOkJJHA.728@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > >> > >> "Noviez" <hunterinthehorizon@lin.com> wrote in message > >> news:On6yJHkJJHA.2444@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > >> > Hi all wats procedure to create drives more than Z:... > >> > > >> > i brought a new hard disk and created some 3 partitions out of its 150 > > gb > >> > now i cannot assign drive letters cos windows XP is not allowing me to > >> > create drive with letters more than Z: ?? > >> > >> You can't. Use folders instead of drives. > >> > >> > > > > Well you can use more than 26 drives if you *mount* add'l drives within > > folders: > > > > it's been asked before here (and elsewhere) : > > > > http://www.ozzu.com/mswindows-forum/more-than-drives-t61819.html > > > > Agreed, but I wonder about the point of the exercise. Now the OP creates > numerous partitions, then he links them to various folders on one of his > drives. I thought it would be much simpler to have few partitions and have > the respective folders on each partition. The end result is exactly the same > but three partitions are much easier to manage than 23 . . . > > Agreed I don't know if I've ever had more than 3 partitions per drive. hey who knows , maybe he's got more than 26 HD's in the machine !!!!
Guest philo Posted October 5, 2008 Posted October 5, 2008 Re: Creating more than 26 drives... "Noviez" <hunterinthehorizon@lin.com> wrote in message news:%23XzQPikJJHA.4280@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Thnx for the tip .. will it by an affect the drive where the mounting folder > is present ?? i havent tried this yet.. just want to make sure it is ok to > mount it on folders.. > Never tried it myself... I was just passing along the info > "philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in message > news:uP6ygVkJJHA.1556@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl... > > > > "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com.oz> wrote in message > > news:e3AXMOkJJHA.728@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > >> > >> "Noviez" <hunterinthehorizon@lin.com> wrote in message > >> news:On6yJHkJJHA.2444@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > >> > Hi all wats procedure to create drives more than Z:... > >> > > >> > i brought a new hard disk and created some 3 partitions out of its 150 > > gb > >> > now i cannot assign drive letters cos windows XP is not allowing me to > >> > create drive with letters more than Z: ?? > >> > >> You can't. Use folders instead of drives. > >> > >> > > > > Well you can use more than 26 drives if you *mount* add'l drives within > > folders: > > > > it's been asked before here (and elsewhere) : > > > > http://www.ozzu.com/mswindows-forum/more-than-drives-t61819.html > > > > > >
Guest ArameFarpado Posted October 5, 2008 Posted October 5, 2008 Re: Creating more than 26 drives... Em Domingo, 5 de Outubro de 2008 02:44, philo escreveu: >> Agreed, but I wonder about the point of the exercise. Now the OP creates >> numerous partitions, then he links them to various folders on one of his >> drives. I thought it would be much simpler to have few partitions and >> have the respective folders on each partition. The end result is exactly >> the > same >> but three partitions are much easier to manage than 23 . . . >> >> > > > Agreed > > I don't know if I've ever had more than 3 partitions per drive. > > hey who knows , maybe he's got more than 26 HD's in the machine !!!! Actually, it's not dificult to get there these days, boards with sata and ide can go up to 6 HDs (maybe more) plus 2 Cd/dvd, then there are printers with slosts for cards witch 2 slots creates 2 drives... a card reader can add up to 6 drives, external disks and network drives, foto cameras, etc... even some 3G modems adds a driver... it's not dificult at all to reach drive Z.
Guest Plato Posted October 8, 2008 Posted October 8, 2008 Re: Creating more than 26 drives... cant do it
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