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How many drives do you have? Thread last updated on 2004-06-09 12:45:37

Posted by member 57005 on 2004-06-07 10:35:43

I'm working on a theme at the moment and I'm interested in knowing how many drives you guys have? I have made shortcuts to "C:\", "D:\", "E:\", "F:\", "G:\" and "H:\". About 20 kB wasted on shortcuts I don't use myself that is. :) Do I need any more?

BTW, the shortcuts are for free space labels and of course links to the drives themselves...

Posted by member 103254 on 2004-06-07 11:14:27 link

I have a floppy, 2 HDDs, a cd writer and a dvd reader.

Posted by member 57005 on 2004-06-07 11:51:54 link

As long as no HDD is placed after "H:" there should be no problem. No need to check a CD-drive for free space I think (not like you download stuff to them anyway). :)

Posted by member 12025 on 2004-06-07 17:45:57 link

Doubt it. I have a hard drive, a backup (ghosted to new HD, old HD sitting there unplugged), and CDRW.
Most people will have no more than two HDs and two opticals.

Posted by member 134480 on 2004-06-07 22:04:25 link

Why not just have one shortcut (probably C, as Windows like to be on C) and leave instructions for the user to add more into your theme? It may be more convenient for them than figuring out why there are shortcuts to drives they don't have.

Posted by member 57005 on 2004-06-08 16:43:29 link

jp1nd: Yep, exactly what I've done as well. :) By default, shortcuts are shown for "C:" and "E:" and is easily configured in a special file called "settings.rc" (made only for inexperienced users). Imagefiles are included for the other drives and that's really why I'm asking...

BTW, do you have any idea how to make textedit understand how to change just one single shortcut? Like I want "*shortcut "C:" blablabla..." to become "*shortcut "D:" blablabla...". I've tried almost everything and I have almost given up on the idea as well since I can't get it to work at all. ;(

Posted by member 168857 on 2004-06-08 16:45:01 link

I have three partitions as it allows for smaller cluster size. I also have two cd/cdrw drives, and a nero image drive

Posted by member 1316 on 2004-06-08 17:45:32 link

my machines always have at LEAST 4 drives/partitions. OS(c:\), Data(d:\), Swap(z:\), and CD(e:\).

Posted by member 90007 on 2004-06-08 21:31:52 link

I have a few.. I have 3 partitions on my main system, plus network drives mounted from my server (sooo much easier to store data always as the D: drive)

So, to list:
c: (os)
d: (mount: data)
e: (mount: download scratch drive)
f: (mount: download archive)
g: (mount: complete downloads)
i: (mount: media drive)
k: (local partition: vmware and some other stuff)
l: (mount: server temp drive)
v: (CDRW - actual)
w: (daemon virtual dvd drive)
y: (daemon virtual dvd drive)
z: (Local partition: fat16 drive with dos apps, just in case)

So; 12.

Now, that being said; I monitor free space, shortcuts, etc all from a samurize config that can be integrated into any theme.

deuce: That's how I started, before I got the server ;)

Posted by member 7223 on 2004-06-09 02:21:53 link

Use filemaster and test if "Drive:\Recycler" exist.
You'll know how many hdd there is :)

Posted by member 45783 on 2004-06-09 03:10:35 link

I only have the main drive and swap, so C: (main) D: (swap) and E and F (normal and daemon CD drivers.

In addition to that, I mount Z:, a 240G chunk of space and archives on my server box, but I've never felt any need to divide it to multiple drives.

Posted by member 1316 on 2004-06-09 12:45:37 link

jackandjohn: I do have a server. my "data" drive basically consists of all my application and game installs (I should start naming it something different I think as data doesn't really cut it anymore...)