What happens when windows runs out of drive letters?

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score 23 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 16 '13 at 01:29

Then it can not assign a new drive letter to a volume which has none.

Luckily drive letters are completely optional, and you can mount drives in folders.

(Take a look at disk-management, you can remove a drive letter from a volume; and if desired, mount it in a path).

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score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Mar 20 '17 at 10:16

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Once you run out of drive letters Windows will force you to mount drives to a NTFS folder or mount points rather than a drive letter.

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answered Jan 16 '13 at 01:27

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 16 '13 at 01:28

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the end - of drive letters - you can still mount to a folder (mount point)

personally i think it's silly (ok, ridiculous) for Windows to maintain the drive letter scenario

answered Jan 16 '13 at 01:28

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Nope. Drive letters are user friendly. I would understand your reasoning with Windows supporting *only* drive letters, but as yourself said they also support mount points. – beppe9000 Sep 25 '16 at 09:09

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