On Tue, 04 Feb 2014 17:14:14 -0500, Paul wrote:

I expect if you install enough hard drives, eventually
you could run out of letters for the partitions.
I presume someone has a clever solution for that.
You see, there have been people who do "stupid
pet tricks" with hard drives, like install every
OS in existence on the drive, use a whole bunch
of logical partitions, and people like that would
likely use up all the drive letters (A to Z). I
don't know what comes after Z :-)

Windows won't care if you run out of letters, it just won't let you
assign a letter to the drive. You can still mount it in a folder,
though. Drive free space reports are bogus in that case (you'll
always get the free space of the drive it's mounted in) and there seem
to be some setup bugs with sharing but it otherwise works. (I have a
backup box with multiple drives mounted in C:\Backup which is then
shared--this means it uses only one drive letter on any system that's
accessing it. If I change the configuration I have to unshare the
directory, share the new volume on it's own, then put it in the folder
and share the folder again. Annoying but not a showstopper.