how many local disks we can create in a windows? and what the next letter takes place after Z in a local disk?

Question

i want answer urgently please help me

Answer 1

Totally 26 partitions are possible (from A to Z). And once you reached Z:\ drive letter, Windows will force you to mount the next partitions to an NTFS folder rather than assigning a mix of alphabets. Note that although Windows is usually installed in C:\ drive, you can assign drive letters A and B to your hard drive partitions, in the absence of floppy drives.

Answer 2

In the naming table there is only one space for a drive letter so yes the limit is 26. However A and B are reserved so that leaves 24.

But allowing for the MBR limit of 4 primary partitions per disk you can have more that 24 partitions. By the use of mount points drives do not have to have letters assigned. So for example if you create a folder c:\Drive AA provided the folder is empty you can then mount the drive when you create it or use the Change Drive Letter or Path into that directory. So when you write to c:\Drive AA you are actually writing to the mounted drive. Of course your folder name could be anything so you could create a mount point called Accounts and then assign an entire partition to Accounts

I have read of somebody doing this to find if there was a limit but after a few hundred got bored!

Answer 3

In the naming table there is only one space for a drive letter so yes the limit is 26. However A and B are reserved so that leaves 24.

The letters A and B are not reserved. When windows was first developed (Windows 1.0), it was developed to work on DOS, which used floppy drives as the primary mode of operation - A drive for OS and B drive for storage. So when you install Windows 1.0 or updated version till Windows 3.1, you need to have DOS as base and you need to install Windows to a hard drive partition, which becomes C:. This convention is being followed throughout the Windows releases (even in Windows 8). But since floppy drives are obsolete these days, you can assign drive letters A and B to any storage partitions (hard drive or even USB storage devices).

Answer 4

i  just want to know that we can create a partition after Z letter or not and if we able then whts the letter of that partition please mention the letters

Answer 5

i  just want to know that we can create a partition after Z letter or not and if we able then whts the letter of that partition please mention the letters