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		NetMageSCW 31 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Windows drive letters are not limited to A-Z I always used J: (I didn’t expect to need to add that many hard drives). I mainly did it so that CD installs wouldn’t lose their install drive since even Windows tracked it by the absolute path. Not as important with everything installed by download and Windows copying the install media to the hard drive anyway.

hilbert42 31 days ago [–]

Right, can't exactly remember why L was selected. I think we were thinking worst case scenario then adding some for good measure. :-)

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