Why no b: drive?

[ZeroShade]

Whats the reasoning over no a: drive?

 

[ZeroShade]

Re: Why no a: drive?

Nevermind this post... i meant b drive... i added the other post as Why no b: drive. Just mistyped the letter... twice.

 

[peterhuang913]

Re: Why no a: drive?

Why is it that computers never have a "B" drive?

 

[KSoD]

The A and B drice are allocated to teh floppy drives.

 

[servo.tsc]

Hook up a usb floppy that will give you a b drive.

 

[KSoD]

I have several USB Floppies and they dont take the B: Drive letter. In Vista they have removed this limitation. I was able to give the data drive of mine the letter A:\ this limit is only for XP and before Windows OS's.

 

[servo.tsc]

Well i was using xp at the time. When i built my pc i didnt bother with an internal floppy. i only use it when i am working on someones pc that has no boot from cd option in the bios and or requires a boot disk to install the os.

 

[Kharn]

I think Vista totally removed floppy support, I am sure b: is reserved for the 5 1/4 in floppy.

 

[forrestcupp]

I think Vista totally removed floppy support, I am sure b: is reserved for the 5 1/4 in floppy.

No, it is reserved for any kind of floppy. Back in the day, hard drives were small and there weren't CD burners. It was useful to have 2 floppy drives to copy files from one disk to another.

 

[Yek]

From what I can remember B:\ is for a ext floppy drive but got removed when the brought in the hard drive (C:\)