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Drive Letter Allocation

Windows drive letters are a limited resource that must be carefully managed on larger networked systems. These assignments can be used to standardize drive letters for FHC patron systems.

DRIVE RESOURCE COMMENT
A: 3.5" Floppy
B:   allocated to 5.25" Floppy
C: system: primary system backup partition shares this assignment
D: data: swap file Windows swap file
E: data: temp Temporary Internet and data files
F: data: archive  
G:   reserved for drive partition
H:   reserved for removable drive
I: reserved for removable drive
J:   reserved for mapped drive
K: FHLC dynamic mapping via WSH script
L: Freedman's Bank dynamic mapping via WSH script
M: PRF dynamic mapping via WSH script
N: FS: AF dynamic mapping via bat file¹
O: FS: FHLC dynamic mapping via bat file
P: FS: IGI dynamic mapping via bat file
Q: FS: MI dynamic mapping via bat file
R: FS: SCR dynamic mapping via bat file
S: FS: SSDI dynamic mapping via bat file
T: FS: IGIA dynamic mapping via bat file
U:   reserved for user's network data
V: patron data  
W:   reserved for drive
X:   reserved for drive, e.g. shared CD
Y: CD drive  
Z: Zip drive  

¹FS drives can be dynamically mapped via a batch files that execute when FS is opened. This assures that shared resources are available and allows drive letters to be reused.

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