>26 HDD partitions...?

Generally we know all the hard disk partition are shown by a alphabet.Starting from C to Z I think that system don't have any FDD or Optical Drive.If we use A & B as HDD partition (I am not sure) then the maximum number of partitions possible is 26.If I want more than 26 partition then what is the alphabet of it ?
I am going to buy a 400GB HDD & i prefers small size partition .Because i format partitions frequently. Normally i use 12 GB partition size.So, the number of partition is around 31-32(Real size of 400GB HDD is aroud 380GB).

^^ You are going nuts I think. Making 26 partition is something crazy.
If in windows, A: and B:, both are reserved for floppy drives. Now I dont know if >26 partitions are possible, but if they are then they will be named C1: C2:

And yeah, In case you are a gamer, then nowdays good games take around 4-5-6 GBs of space, this can pose problem if all your partitions are half filled

Waise wait for some geeky reply, I dont think its possible.

> 26 Partitions

hmmm.. i dunno abt windows but linux numbers them as hda1/2....5/6... etc. any mbr can hold upto 4 partition records. that mebbe 4 primary partitions or 3 primary and 1 extended. in the extended partition, theoretically any number of logical part. can be created. i think kernel 2.2 supported only upto 16 partitions. that may haf increased now.

i suppose windows will support at least upto 20 such things, esp. the newer version. an advice will be to make 25gb ones.

yups you CAN have greater than 26 partitions , but then you'll have to mount these partitions as folder under your existing partitions rather than giving em letters . but yes , it can be done and windows supports any number of partitions .

Yes. u can mount these partition into any forlder.

26 Partitons....

<faint> :lol:

U kidding. How much disk space u have. 20 TeraByte. :lol:

Hehe.

A and B are reserved. You can't use them. HDD's can use partitions starting from C and you can have any no. of partitions but y do u need it. I find 5-6 partitions enough for a 250GB HDD

Quiz_Master said:
26 Partitons....

<faint>

U kidding. How much disk space u have. 20 TeraByte.

But partitions arent dependent on HDD space ..

Zeeshan Quireshi said:
yups you CAN have greater than 26 partitions , but then you'll have to mount these partitions as folder under your existing partitions rather than giving em letters . but yes , it can be done and windows supports any number of partitions .

And @ bhushan05d251 at last some one said it's possible. :idea:

But I don't know the process of mount a partition as folder. Pls tell me de process...

Projjwal said:
And @ bhushan05d251 at last some one said it's possible. But I don't know the process of mount a partition as folder. Pls tell me de process...

Start->Run "compmgmt.msc"

Click on "Disk Management" on left

Right-Click on partition->"Change drive letter n paths"

Click "add" in the following dialog .

then select "Mount in empty NTFS folder"

you can mount a partition to more than one folders

or u can have a partition mounted as more than one drives , folder or ny combination .

Thx I did it but there is a problem suppose u have a partition named D: now u mount another partition as folder inside d: named "xx".
Now the problem start if i format D: the xx partition also formated...

Any solution for it...???

Projjwal said:
Thx I did it but there is a problem suppose u have a partition named D: now u mount another partition as folder inside d: named "xx".
Now the problem start if i format D: the xx partition also formated...

Any solution for it...???

what u can do s make a separate drive for mounting all other partitions . this way u'll know this drive has mounted partitions n u won't format it

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more then 26 Partitions? have you lost your mind? I personally would not advise that thats what folders are for... but hey let us know how it turns out for you. why again do you want so many partitions??? point?

hm...nice piece of info....

But 26 partitions...wat use?better more space together than broken ones
10-15 will be ok

I read somewhere that the 1st partition is always the fastest and efficient(Tweaking guide i guess). So it's always better to have a really large C drive to install all your games and programs rather than so many partitions.