{"id":180,"date":"2004-10-18T04:18:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-18T11:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/how-drive-letters-are-assigned-by-windows\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T14:54:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T21:54:15","slug":"how-drive-letters-are-assigned-by-windows","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/how-drive-letters-are-assigned-by-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"How Drive Letters are Assigned by Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This article applies to (but is not limited to)&nbsp;the following versions of Windows:<\/p>\r\n  <ul>\r\n    <li>Windows 95\/98\/Me <\/li>\r\n    <li>Windows 2000 <\/li>\r\n    <li>Windows XP <\/li>\r\n    <li>Server 2003 <\/li>\r\n    <li>Windows Vista <\/li>\r\n    <li>Windows 7 <\/li>\r\n    <li>Windows 8.x<\/li><li>Windows 10<\/li>\r\n  <\/ul>\r\n  <p>Windows assigns drive letters, starting with C, in the following sequence:<\/p>\r\n  <ol dir=\"ltr\">\r\n    <li>\r\n      <div style=\"margin-right: 0px;\">The <strong>active primary partition<\/strong> on HD0.<br \/><br \/><\/div>\r\n    <\/li>\r\n    <li>\r\n      <div style=\"margin-right: 0px;\">The <strong>active primary partition<\/strong> (or <strong>first primary partition<\/strong>&nbsp;if no active partition) of each other hard drive.<br \/><br \/><\/div>\r\n    <\/li>\r\n    <li>\r\n      <div style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"><strong>All logical partitions<\/strong> (volumes), starting with HD0.<br \/><br \/><\/div>\r\n    <\/li>\r\n    <li>\r\n      <div style=\"margin-right: 0px;\"><strong>Any remaining primary partitions<\/strong>, starting with HD0.<\/div>\r\n    <\/li>\r\n  <\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article applies to (but is not limited to)&nbsp;the following versions of Windows: Windows 95\/98\/Me Windows 2000 Windows XP Server 2003 Windows Vista Windows 7 Windows 8.xWindows 10 Windows assigns drive letters, starting with C, in the following sequence: The active primary partition on HD0. The active primary partition (or first primary partition&nbsp;if no active [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1780],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2127],"class_list":["post-180","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-windows","lsvr_kba_tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6154,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/180\/revisions\/6154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=180"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}