Stuart Powell wrote:
Hello, Paul.
Actually, Windows 2000 allows you to do this, to a degree. If you add a new hard drive to a system, when you partition it out, you can select any drive letter you like (NT also allows this), or you can tell the system to mount it to a directory under a different drive.
I didn't know that. If you create several partitions, can you control all the letters independently? Can you change them later? And is the ability to mount to a directory as flexible as the Linux approach to mounting?
As far as I know, you can only do this with hard drives, though, not removable media. However, you can assign a different drive letter to a removable media drive.
I can live with that, as I have under Win98. References to files on mountable media are exceedingly rare.
Credit where it is due, MS have addressed this issue at long last.
But it still hasn't percolated through to the consumer-level systems such as Windows ME, I gather. I wonder if WinXP will have it.
I went off drive letters a long time ago when my local drives now run up as far as I: on my W2K box. What with multiple hard drives, CDs, DVD, CD Burner, smart media adapter etc, it starts to get a bit silly after a while.
Drive letters are silly anyway. Look at that ridiculous B drive, for the second floppy!!!!
And, if you're interested, MS has also done a half-brained attempt at symbolic links at last, too. Unfortunately, it only happens on RIS volumes (Remote Installation Service) and is something the system does automatically to save space on said volume. User volumes still do not have this capability.
And of course that's where they're most needed. Shortcuts also provide a feeble version of symlinks. Paul