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Random little curiousity survey: - How many drive letters are you using?
Deusfaux
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Personally I'm about down to K
Also, is B: sorta reserved from tradition for the 5" floppy drive?
A: 3" floppy (when I have it installed)
B: ????
C: raptor stripe
DVDRW
E: backup seagate
F: card reader (SD)
G: card reader (CF+memstick?)
H: external seagate backup
I: iPod nano
J: thumbdrive
K: 360 HDDVD addon
P.S. to change drive lettering, go to control panel, then administrative tools, then computer management, then disk management in the left pane. right click a drive and voila
Also, is B: sorta reserved from tradition for the 5" floppy drive?
A: 3" floppy (when I have it installed)
B: ????
C: raptor stripe
DVDRWE: backup seagate
F: card reader (SD)
G: card reader (CF+memstick?)
H: external seagate backup
I: iPod nano
J: thumbdrive
K: 360 HDDVD addon
P.S. to change drive lettering, go to control panel, then administrative tools, then computer management, then disk management in the left pane. right click a drive and voila
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E: Virtual drive
F: Card reader
I think that's about it.
Someone with a lot of USB ports and thumbdrives should find out.
I just have 3+1 right now:
C : system drive, delicious Raptor
D : storage drive, delicious hugeness
E : optical drive
F : virtual drive
D : Storage harddrive (soon to be Vista HDD)
E : DVD drive
F : CD drive
C: Main HDD (XP/programs/games, named Important Pants)
E: DVD-RW
F: CD-RW
I: iPod (named Trendy Pants)
U: USB Flash Drive (named Portable Pants)
V: Virtual CD Drive (Daemon Tools)
X: Media HDD (backup, named Preventative Pants)
Y: Media HDD (music, named Musical Pants)
Z: Media HDD (music mirror, named Shiny Pants)
There is a theme here...
B: is kinda reserved for a 5" floppy, but can used by a second 3.5" floppy or the first 3.5" floppy if you connect it with a cable that has no twisted wires (most floppy cables has a about 8 or so wires twisted before the final connector).
Also I'm down to about K: when I connect my MP3 player.
Well hello mister Fancy Pants.
C: HDD
D : HDD
Z:HDD
X:HDD (external)
S:HDD (external)
T: Card Reader
U:Card Reader
E : DVD-RW
F : DVD-RW
G: Virtual drive
H:Virtual Drive
J: Virtual Drive
L: Flash Drive
W: Cowon D2 when its plugged in
D : DVD/CD RW
and everyonce in awhile
E: Virtual Drive
I am a simple man I guess.
D : DVD/RW
K : Virtual Drive
Z : Sata Bix Nood (media, backup of anything important)
J : Media backup, anything important backup #2).
D : DVDRW
E: iPod/Thumbdrive (F: if both at once)
This is a laptop though, so not going to have many drive letters.
The desktop I just built my father-in-law:
C: HDD
D : DVDRW
E: DVD-ROM
F: Card reader
G: Card reader
H: Card reader
I: Card reader
J: External HDD
K: iPod/Thumbdrive (L: if both)
D : DVD
That is all anyone needs.
That's 1 floppy, four card-readers (covers all the formats), two virtual drives for mounting isos for test purposes, two optical drives (one superdrive, one DVD RW) and the other six are various HDD partitions for media/downlads/larger programs etc.
Of course a couple of those are mounted as folders inside My Documents too.
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DVD RW
Compact Flash Drive (never used)
Memory Stick Drive (never used)
Smart Media Drive (never used)
USB Hard Drive
Windows Partition
Linux Partition
Card reader on my Printer (never used)
SD card reader
Needless to say I unplug it unless I need it. Damned thing could at least wait until there's a card in before mounting a drive.
It's either Z or ZZ, i think.
edit: it's Z. so 26.
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X: (scratch disc)
F: (iPod)
R: (cuc.ac.uk Shared Area)
I: (SITS database network drive)
Z: (print server)
C: Sachiel
E: Ramiel
F: Sahaquiel
G: Raziel (Removable USB Drive)
I: DVD Drive
J: Zeruel
K: Armisael
And you only have the option of assigning 26 letters to drives so that'd probably be the maximum. Though you can probably add additionals as suplemental storage for existing drives.
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Though at work, I think I'm using something like 6. The Floppy drive, two cd/DVDR drives, C, then a card reader on the printer, then a USB stick.
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A floppy
B 'floppy' (wierd security lock/unlock part of the USB thumbdrive that I always had plugged in)
C main HD
D DVD drive
E CD-RW drive
F secondary internal HD
G External HD
H 2nd partition on the same external HD (don't ask me, it came like that and for ages I just didn't bother to reformat it)
I USB thumbdrive
plus whatever other USB devices I had plugged in (thumbdrives, mp3 players or printer) and normally 3 Daemon Tools virtual drives.
Now it's just floppy drive (a), main HD (c), DVD drive (d) and secondary HD (i)
A: floppy
C: HDD
E: Virtual Drive
F: Novell personal drive
G: Novell department drive (my department)
H: Novell department drive (all other departments)
I: Card Reader
J: Card Reader
?: Novell applications drive
?: Novell common files drive
U: Novell users drive
W: Mapped drive for Vegas network rendering
Y: Mapped drive for Portfolio photos
Z: Mapped drive for music
EDIT: Also, there were a few USB drives plugged in from time to time, but I'd rather not include them since they weren't really permanent.
C: WinXP partition
Hidden C: Will be used for Linux eventually... used to be an OS/2 partition
Drive 2
E: data partition (MP3s, files, etc)
F: WinXP virtual memory partition
G: DVD drive
H: DVD-RW drive
L: iPod
M: flash drive
N: camera
O: phone (Ericcson w300i)
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It's 3.5" and 5.25" inch...
A: and B: are reserved from tradition for the floppy drives, not necessarily
any particular size.
I know, I was lazy
C : Primary drive
D : DVD-RW
E : Virtual Drive
F : USB drive (not always in, obviously)
G : Zen Portable Hard drive (nai,o)
Z : The Zed Drive. Media storage.
D : Recovery drive (this is an HP)
E : DVD-RW drive
F : Removable disk
G : Removable disk
H : Removable disk
I : Removable disk
J : Virtual DVD drive
K : My USB memory stick (not always there)