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by Joe_Cool 783 days ago
Windows kind of does have that. They call it the global catalog or Win32 Device Namespaces.

somehow C: is easier to type than \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\HarddiskVolume2\ or \\?\GLOBALROOT\Device\Harddisk0\Partition2\ or even \\?\Volume{1ab2d2f9-230f-4c63-bc25-163c085334df}\ though.