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What is windows drive limits????

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Just out of curiosity, does anyone out there know what is the maximum number of drives windows 2000. Im currently at drive U. I have about a total combine hds of 500gb, and zip drive and some external things. Im just curious, what happens when u hit Z??? After that if you add more drives what does it use to assign drives??? Is windows capped to 26 drives????
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I think I heard that 2k can go to dubble letters AA AB AC AD etc...
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OH, i didnt know that. Thanks for the info dopey.
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Take hardware donations and find the limit. :D
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I said "I think"


not 100% sure
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what do you have connected to go to "U" Image
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I got my hardrives partition for different usage and storage, examples, movie, mp3s, pictures etc. Primary hardrives. I got cd rom, dvd rom, cd burner, got card reader, zip drive, printer card reader.


My hardrives total are 500gbs :D

I might call microsoft and see what there reply is.
Or i might pick up some more hds to find out.
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ewwww, split HD's...
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Sounds like a question for an A+ Cert guy... any takers?
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Google: windows drive letter limitation

http://is-it-true.org/nt/nt2000/atips/atips23.shtml
http://www.wtblock.com/resume/mount_points.htm

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http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treevi ... drives.asp
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