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Windows 1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 3.1, 95, 98, and ME can support a maximum of 26 drives or logical partitions. Windows NT 3.1, 3.5, 3.51, 4, 2000, XP, 2003, Vista, 2008, and 7 can support several thousand drives / partitions in a system.

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