firefly2442 0 Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 Drive letters. C:\ A:\ etc. They go up to Z:\ ? The reason I ask is that for this program it needs to search for a directory which could be anywhere. Thanks a bunch! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
WhiteKnight77 1 Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 Care to expound a bit more on this? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firefly2442 0 Posted August 1, 2003 Author Share Posted August 1, 2003 Yeah sorry. Didn't explain very well. You know how your hard drive is usually C:\ and floppy is A:\ and then there is the CD-Drive(s) on D:\ .... my external hard drive is on F:\ and if I had more hard drives they would need different letters. Basically, what is the range of drive letters? A:\ to Z:\ ? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Specter 0 Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 A-Z. Floppy = A Floppy2 = B Primary HDD = C Primary Slave = D Secondary Primary = E Secondary Slave = F Then the rules change when you add paritions. The drive letters are still A-Z, but the order that they are assigned in changes. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dark Ranger 0 Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 Yep. On one of my rigs, I have: A: Floppy C: 2000 Server D: Shared Files Drive E: 2000 Professional F: CD-ROM G: CD-RW H: 128MB external Compact Flash I: 40GB External If I had a ZIP, I could assign it Z: no problem. As long as your network sees the drive, it doesn't matter. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firefly2442 0 Posted August 1, 2003 Author Share Posted August 1, 2003 Cool thanks. Now if I can only get this program to work.... sigh. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Super-Bob 0 Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 Floppy = A Floppy2 = B Primary HDD = C Primary Slave = D Secondary Primary = E Secondary Slave = F Doesn't really work like that. By default windows will make HD partitions C and up. The next goto CD drives. Then they go to other drives. You can make any of them anything you want after the fact. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Specter 0 Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 I was speaking from a default standpoint, as that is how every Windows install I have done does it unless there are other partitions to name. The physical drives have gotten assigned first, then Windows goes back through and does logical drives the second time around. It wont let you use anything but A for a Floppy, and there has to be a C drive, but you can rename the rest whatever you want. I was also explaining from the perspective that most PC's are the same in that they have one or 2 HDD's, a floppy, and one or two CD drives. Where you have a Floppy, then you have an HDD and some type of CD drive on each IDE channel. A common store bought computer setup for the average user. There are litterally hundreds of scenarios you could use, but you cant rename A, or C. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
warhawk 0 Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 I too have found that when it comes to windows 95/98 that the hard drives and any of their partitions have first dibs, if you will, on drive letter assignments. In Windows 95/98 you can change the drive letter assignments of CD-ROMs/CD-RW's etc... inside windows. However if you install a new additional hard drive to what you already have, it has been my experience, that you will have to run a program like Partition Magic to get all of your installed programs to run correctly. That is a process that for the general end user I do not recommend as you can quickly screw up your system. Now I have heard that under Windows 2000 and XP that you can change drive letter assignments while still in windows but for that I would have to defer to Phantom as he would have more experience in this area I am sure. Stout Hearts Warhawk Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crimson 0 Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 Seems XP's partitions have first dibs on drive letters also. Heres mine. (Cleverly named if I do say so myself. ) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
supasniper 0 Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 how do you reassign the letters? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
supasniper 0 Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 never mind, i got it Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Xian Saint 0 Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 Now I have heard that under Windows 2000 and XP that you can change drive letter assignments while still in windows but for that I would have to defer to Phantom as he would have more experience in this area I am sure. Why as a matter of fact you can...gone are the days of fdisk...you can manage drive letters and partitions right from inside XP...its called the disk management utility...and its pretty handy...if you don't see the short cut...just search on disk management... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Crimson 0 Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 If you change the drive letters, wouldnt that screw up the regestries? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
magnumkp 0 Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 Don't forget forget people mapped into a network, you can map a drive and I have 3 mapped into our shared directories of our main server. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Specter 0 Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 @crimson That happened alot in Win9x, yes. But not in XP or 2K. When you click apply after making the changes, it updates the registry for you. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MarkVanDamme 0 Posted August 1, 2003 Share Posted August 1, 2003 Just for arguements sake- I have 2 floppy disk drives, A & B. I have a CDRW and a DVDROM drive, so that's four letters of 26 taken. What if I need 23 partitions (for some wierd reason)? That's A all the way to Z, so what does the next one get called? AA? Or is it simply not allowed? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
warhawk 0 Posted August 2, 2003 Share Posted August 2, 2003 @mark I have never heard of anyone hitting that barrier myself so I have no clue. My first guess would be that it is just not allowed. Having said that I am sure someone will come along and tell us all how it's done. BTW if you have to do that you will have a sure sign that you are in need of a life.....even more than I am..... Stout Hearts Warhawk Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dannik 43 Posted August 2, 2003 Share Posted August 2, 2003 I'm reasonably sure that you end up with drives AA, AB, AC, etc. Reasonably. Mind you, I'm not the most reasonable person out there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
firefly2442 0 Posted August 2, 2003 Author Share Posted August 2, 2003 I spose it would be kind of like IP addresses.... eventually you just run out of names in this case. Not sure why you would need that many partitions. hehe. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Specter 0 Posted August 2, 2003 Share Posted August 2, 2003 Actually, it stops at Z. No one ever figured that anyone would be nuts enough to want to manage 26 partitions on one computer. In the case you need more than that, most people fire up a couple more PC's. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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