Hello everyone

I have already posted this thread but it seems not to have worked?

Can someone please tell me what happens when XP runs out of drive letters? I have 26 drives on my computer, and there is still one, No.4 in the card-reader which has not been designated. Also the card-reader will not read cards, which I feel may be because there is no drive letter associated with it.

In .Computer Management,' under 'Disk Management,' the drive is shown, it also tells me how much of the card is free, but it cannot be read?

Any ideas please?

regards

grimerz

After 26 drives, volume mount points must be used;

http://technet2.microsoft.com/Window....mspx?mfr=true

Thank you very much Dan. It worked like a charm. I reassigned it as Drive B:

Just how do you find all this information please? It is a good job that you do or we duffers would certainly suffer.

Haven't used B: since I used to have two 5inch floppies under DOS, about a hundred years ago.

regards


grimerz

You're welcome.

"Just how do you find all this information please?"

It's because I've been using/working with computers for "about a hundred years". ;>)

I was an Industrial Engineer with Digital Equipment Corporation for a number of years. (1980:91) I don't know if anyone remembers Digital (DEC for short). They were a world-wide computer manufacturing corporation (large mainframes) second only to IBM (Big Blue). IBM machines catered to the business market, whereas DEC machines catered to the scientific market. DEC was bought out by Compaq around '92 or '93, and Compaq in turn was bought out by Hewlett Packard.

So I "grew up" using VAX/VMS, and graduated to MSDOS 3.x when I got my first personal computer. Then along came "Windows", BBS, and the Internet. Since then I've learned to make MS Knowledge Base articles part of my ~library~.

Thank you Dan, now I understand. Thank goodness you are around. I started into computers with a Atari; still got it in the roof. On the back is a huge notice, '16kb Memory!' Bought my first Dos machine in 1986 in Abu Dhabi. I found DOS unbelievably difficult and it took me ages before I moved to Win 3.0.

Thank you again Dan

regards

grimerz

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