Talk:Drive letter assignment

message: What about other OSs that use drive letters? RiscOS? Macs?
:Macs, as far as I know, always use the disc's label to refer to it - which has a default like "Macintosh 5020". Remember that until Mac OS X (which is UNIX), there was rarely need to refer to the location of a file in this way, so the verbosity wasn't a problem. RiscOS, on the other hand, I'm not so sure about - Acorns certainly had short disk identifiers of some sort, but I'm not at all sure they weren't numbers rather than letters... - IMSoP 22:40, 12 Feb 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: RISC OS used numbers and a filing system identifier. For instance, floppy disk drives were controlled by the advanced disc filing system (ADFS) so the first floppy drive was ADFS::0, the second ADFS::1. The root of each FS was $, the directory seperator was . so a typical path was ADFS::0.$.letters.matt (no file extensions). The first IDE drive was ADFS::4, the second ADFS::5 and so on, SCSI drives were SCSI::0 etc. There was also ResourcesFS, from which you could access the files stored in ROM, I can't remember how that was labelled. IIRC there were some pseudo-FSs too. M Blissett 13:11, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: MacOS (at least prior to X) does have device names.  But they are only needed for blood & guts programming.  The average user is never confronted with them. —Brian Patrie 13:15, 9 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Other OS?

message: What does Windows call drives beyond Z:? I've wondered about this. Unfortunately, no one yet has provided me with an answer. —Typhlosion 19:14, 12 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Microsoft TechNet says 'You can create more than 26 volumes with Windows, but you cannot assign more than 26 drive letters for accessing these volumes. ... Volumes created after the 26th drive letter has been used must be accessed using volume mount points'. Like to add this to the article? PeterGrecian 12:48, 27 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I've added it now. PeterGrecian 18:31, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  After Z:? Maybe numbers? I don't know (If you ask why number, it's just I got it somewhere in a wacky error message {saying that "8:" isn't valid}). AppleMacReporter 01:49, 19 January 2007 (UTC)

text:  There are tons of servers at our organisation too, but I use a Windows app to map the network drives only when I need them. Works for me.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.69.60.49 (talk) 16:41, 28 February 2008 (UTC)

text: Back around the MS-DOS 3 days, the underlying code of one version of DOS supported 32 drives, and I remember one columnist to a computer magazine reporting that he was actually using at least 31, with the last five drive "letters" being "[:", "\:", "]:", "^:", and "_:" (these being the characters which immediately follow "Z" in ASCII).  This loophole was apparently quickly eliminated in subsequent DOS versions... AnonMoos (talk) 13:08, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: After Z:?

message: I note an edit today changing recognized to recognised in this article. Basically, you should have left this spelling in place. See [Manual of Style, on style disputes]: 
...it is inappropriate for a Wikipedia editor to change from one style to another unless there is some substantial reason for the change. For example, with respect to British spelling as opposed to American spelling, it would only be acceptable to change from American spelling to British spelling if the article concerned a British topic. Revert warring over optional styles is unacceptable; if the article uses colour rather than color, it would be wrong to switch simply to change styles, although editors should ensure that articles are internally consistent. If in doubt, defer to the style used by the first major contributor.
Not a big deal, but the goals are internal consistency, and following the style of the original contributor. Not to mention that CP/CMS, CP/M, and Microsoft products all have US origins. I have not reverted the spelling, but future edits should seek consistency here. Trevor Hanson 19:12, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Recognized → recognised 

message: user:Mecu reverted an edit by 74.224.92.99, identifying it as vandalism. This is the text that was restored:
:(Win98 update really likes to put any CD-ROM drive as D:\ even putting it above a Primary Partition IDE device)
It was removed with the edit comment "removed a casual comment".
I think this was a legitimate edit, definitely not vandalism. You might disagree with the change, but I think you should assume good faith. The text in question is non-encyclopaedic and unsourced. When I saw the change I thought "yeah, that probably doesn't belong here." Trevor Hanson 03:57, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I saw it as well, and also thought it wasn't real vandalism (but understood Mecu's motivations).  I have vague memories of my D: being remapped back in the days I used Win98, so it appears to be have been legitimately informative.  OTOH, it may be an urban myth, so I have tagged it with . John Vandenberg 04:28, 24 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism? 

message: IMHO, this section is off-topic; I think this article should concentrate on CP/M/DOS/Windows-style single-letter drive identifiers, otherwise it becomes a general discussion of OS device/volume naming schemes, and that is a different article altogether. Letdorf (talk) 12:35, 23 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Amiga section 

message: With the death of the floppy, what will take its place for A: and B: assignments? Jigen III (talk) 14:59, 14 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: As far as I know nothing is automatically assigned to these letters, at least in Windows versions up to 7. However they can be assigned manually to any drive. When I needed to assign a persistent letter to my external hard drive I made it A: just because it always bothered me that those two went unused (and it's my main drive for storing files, so it makes sense to me for it to come first). Also I know enough people who still think of 'A: drive' as synonymous with 'floppy disk' that it's fun to tell people I have 160GB of music on the A: drive and see the look on their faces. 82.68.159.246 (talk) 16:55, 10 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: On this Win 7 box (and probably many others) there is a multi-gigabyte NTFS disk living happily on the "B" slot. This is a minor issue, as in developing a batch script to scan existing HDDs for folders, the documented default HDD drive set is still {C,D,E,F,G).--Lmstearn (talk) 02:52, 21 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inheriting A: and B: 

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message: Didn't Windows Vista (or 7) introduce a different behavior, where the boot partition (the one with the WINDOWS folder) is always assigned the letter C, even if it is not the first primary partition? Or was that in some pre-release version and dropped later?
--Xerces8 (talk) 19:17, 22 June 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  New Windows behavior? 

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