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| Thread ID: 29229 | 2003-01-14 03:01:00 | Quik Q - Wheres "B" Drive | fergie (424) | Press F1 |
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| 113621 | 2003-01-14 03:01:00 | Hi, Just a quick "curiosity" question. Wheres the 'B' Drive? I mean - in a standard windows installation ( with 1 HDD, 1 Fdd, 1CD) they are usally labelled A (fdd) C (HDD) and D (CD) And when u add in another cd-rom drive - it usually gets D as its drive letter. But wheres B drive? Can you change a drives letter to this? Is it safe to do so? And why does windows miss it out? Thanks |
fergie (424) | ||
| 113622 | 2003-01-14 03:06:00 | In the beginning there was....The IBM PC. It had one or 2 floppy drives. HDD never came out until the XT model. The first floppy was A: If fitted, the second was B: This system probably predated to CPM systems and before as well I suspect. These names have been reserved since then for software compatability. I would [b]not [/b[ recommend trying to use the names for non FDD drives. have you run out of names in the C: - Z: ?? |
godfather (25) | ||
| 113623 | 2003-01-14 03:10:00 | thanks for tht godfather. na, i have just set up a new partitioned HDD, and i was wondering where B drive was - just out of curiousity. cheers |
fergie (424) | ||
| 113624 | 2003-01-14 03:11:00 | I would leave it.. If you're wanting to map more network drives, do some without drive letters.... For some PC's which have 2 Floppy Drives, they assign the second the letter B:\ I can remember on my old 286: a: = 5 1/4" FDD b: = 3 1/2" 1.44MB FDD c: = 20MB HDD Which was usually compressed to a whopping 37MB!!!! At the end - When it came time to sll the PC after and upgrade, I had about 100 floppies... Compare that to the HDD size.... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 113625 | 2003-01-14 04:33:00 | True, a second floppy drive registers as B: However, DOS (I think even W95 or W98SE) will allow B: on a single drive machine. "COPY A:<filename> B:" allows you to save copies to a second floppy disk with only one drive (and often a lot of disk swapping). Here's one from a DOS head - SUBST allows you to "spoof" a drive by SUBSTituting one drive letter for another. |
Tom McB (832) | ||
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