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| 24951 | 2001-11-19 20:07:00 | I've always wondered why convention seems to protect and continue to not use 'B' drive. Is there any good or logical reason why B is not used? To be able to utilize B, does one need to change any BIOS settings, or anything else? |
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| 24952 | 2001-11-19 21:19:00 | In the past there were few hard drives and they were so costly people used 2 floppies to save data to B was reserved for this purpose be it a 5 1/4 or a state of the arts 3 1/2 floppy drive. This concept is the basis or foundation opon which all PCs adhered to and still do to this day. | Guest (0) | ||
| 24953 | 2001-11-20 04:02:00 | If you had two floppy drives in those days. You were known as god. Not relevant to this but those days they couldn't see the future and didn't know how obsolete that 'B' drive would be. I don't see them rewriting the bios and operating system since Im sure there are people out there who still like having two. If you do can I have one. I don't have any hehe :) | Guest (0) | ||
| 24954 | 2001-11-20 04:53:00 | Open a DOS window, and type 'copy a:\*.* b:' with a floppy in drive a:. When it asks you for a disk in drive b:, take out the source disk, and insert a blank one. I can't do that on most of my boxes, because they have one 3.5' and one 5.25' as a: and b:. And the 5150 has a cassette tape! | Guest (0) | ||
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