Windows drive mapping conventions

The letters are indeed completely arbitrary after the local physical drives)
I like to use Q for QuickBooks, P for Peachtree etc...

Peter Ireland



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> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Dorian
> A. Monroe, II
> Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 7:53 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: RE: Windows drive mapping conventions
>
>
> Network drive letter assignments are completely arbitrary in the Windows
> world. Many companies have a scheme that they use, but there is no
> "recommended" scheme.
>
> My company uses 'G:' as a departmental shared drive, while 'H:' is the
> user's personal network drive. If you ask 100 different companies,
> personally, I would expect somewhere around 80 different answers. We
> assign the CDRom drive to letter 'Z:' on all our deployments, mainly for
> consistency. Some people have just a C: drive, some may have a D:, or
> perhaps even E: or F:, depending on partitioning, zip/usb/other external
> devices. At least we know that their cdrom drive should be Z:.
>
> Even with our naming scheme, I can never guess what someone is trying to
> access when they say "I can't get to my F: drive!" Or at least I can
> never assume to know what drive they're trying to access.
>
> Just thought I'd share! :)
>

>     -- Dorian

>
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> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of
> Patrick Fleming
> Sent: Sunday, October 12, 2003 2:48 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Windows drive mapping conventions
>
>
>
> Chris Gehlker wrote:
>
> >> Many hardware manufacturers use the R: & S: drives for CD, CD-R, DVD
> >> drives so while it might sound good, it may require 're-assigning'
> the
> >> letter of the drive on some machines.
> >
> >
> > There had to be a reason to avoid S: for shared. I thought the
> > convection was that optical drives are G: and H:.
>
> Many 'server' drives are mapped to S: in business evironments. My
> previous employer mapped the server to S: as well as a company they
> acquired (the acquired co used an entirely different server OS so that
> created its own problems)
>
> Patrick
>
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