diesel_98a Posted March 4, 2005 Share Posted March 4, 2005 why no b drives? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dman Posted March 5, 2005 Share Posted March 5, 2005 Floppy controllers still support 2 drives. You can add a B drive anytime. It's just hardly anyone uses one floppy anymore, let alone two (lots of new computers are shipped without one)Maybe your topic should read "Why no floppy drives?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
diesel_98a Posted March 5, 2005 Author Share Posted March 5, 2005 i don't care what its named...........not that it matters, just thought it interesting enough to share, maybe somebody will learn something & give us o'vets a laugh in the process..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prathapml Posted March 7, 2005 Share Posted March 7, 2005 Thanks diesel_98a!That yahoo link led to another interesting MSKB page that people keep enquiring about frequently - Order in Which MS-DOS and Windows Assign Drive LettersYou mind if this topic's title is renamed and moved to "Windows 9x" forum, where it will be very useful? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indianarchie Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 tht's a nice topic....i like this:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spyder2k Posted March 9, 2005 Share Posted March 9, 2005 The B drive is still used relatively a lot, in the instance of CD-ROM booting where floppy emulation is used. B: is required to access the real physical drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amp_man Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 nice find. I still remember my dad's old NEC laptop with dual floppy drives, one for the DOS 3.0 boot disk, the other for software...usually oregon trail. Guess I just take it for granted nowadays that C is the first hard drive. But anyways, with the way technology's headed, those could probably be removed and reassigned as hard drives in Longhorn (hey, MS always has to find some way to mess us up with every new release). I mean, jumpdrives, zip disks (ugh) and cds/dvds have made floppies pretty much obsolete nowadays, I don't even have a floppy drive in my latest machine or my crappy old laptop, and usually don't even think of it as missing. Also, don't most motherboards now support boot from cd without floppy emulation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
prathapml Posted March 14, 2005 Share Posted March 14, 2005 If longhorn and WinFS had been on time, we should have seen the elimination of the concept of drive letters, sooner. Once the changeover happens (maybe now it will take until 2010 to happen), you will just have mount-points, or "file system trunks", from where you use your files. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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