Reply to post: Re: Drive Letters

Windows 10 May 2019 Update thwarted by obscure tech known as 'external storage'

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Re: Drive Letters

"It's 2019 and M$ Windows still exposes device nodes (driver letters) to the general user. WTF???"

Drive letters are mount points and nothing more. It would be rather limiting to allow only 26 drives/partitions in the event they were actual device nodes. Removing them might break legacy software though and would confuse countless people. If you're an advanced user, you can always mount a partition to a directory the same as you do in *NIX, but you'll still have the drive letter of your root partition (usually C:\ out of tradition).

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