What is the maximum number of partitions I can create in WindowsXp?

Question

I know that I can create up to 24 partitions (C to Z), can we create more? and how?

Thanks.

Answer 1

There is a distinction between partitions and mounted partitions. You could create as many partitions as you want, but as you mentioned, you can only mount them on drive letters C through Z.

Fortunately, Microsoft engineers built a way to get around this limitation. You can mount partitions as subfolders of 'drives'. So you could mount a partition on c:\myPartition.

This can be done from Disk Management. If you right-click an unmounted partition and select 'Change drive letters and paths' you can add a new mount point for the partition by using the 'Mount in the following empty NTFS folder' option.