Re: Multiple Drive letters per partition


"mike" <spamme9@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Gabe wrote:
I have two drives 500Gb each - identical
I have multiple partitions on each for future OS's and data areas.
I just noticed that some of the partitions on the second drive have
several letters assigned to them in the left column of my File managers
This system is only about 2 months old.

The primary drive (the one with my daily XP64 in the first partition )
has only one letter per partition C-D-E and F
My sole DVD player is assigned G

The secondary drive (where there is a test version of XP64 on the primary
partition) has

H and H again - primary partition
F and I - on next partition Shows up as I:\ when selected
G and J - next shows up as J :\ when selected to
display
H and K and K - next shows up as K:\
I and L next shows up as L:\ when selected
M - next
N - next

So there are no conflicts in the access only in the listing of these
letters after the Volume name in the left column.... and the assignments
are operationally sequential
These may have appeared at anytime in recent weeks - I do not use them
(I use M as my sole data partition till now) and so have not paid much
attention until I just decided to begin using a second data partition -
and looked closer at what I had to pick from.
The only clue I have to this behavior -- is just recently I went from
running exclusively from the default Admin Logon - to creating a second
admin account (new name) and when i realized i lost acccess to all my
settings and tweaks in the default I copied as much as i could from the
default Admin folder to the new folder (not sure i got everything that
would copy but most - except items that were "in use" and couldn't be
overwritten) Not sure if this is the cause of this but i
would like to clear this up.




randomly copying files from one user account to another is not likely
to produce a satisfactory result. Often, the registry needs to know
about such things.

It's possible to share a subdirectory and assign it a letter.

Do you know where within the account this housekeeping is done, a file or
registry area that can be editied, to remove the extraneous entries


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