why there is nothing like B Drive??

[pro]

we have C,D, E,F,G,......but no B drive
i repeat NO B DRIVE!

why?
does'nt anyone love alphabet " B "??

(hey B Stop crying, we r with ya...)

 

[mehulved]

I think a and b are reserved for floppy drives. So, if you have 2 floppy drives you will have a B:\ too.

 

[pillainp]

Exactly.

In the older days of computing, hard disks were unknown (or hideously expensive).

Therefore floppy disks (5.25", various capacities) were used as storage devices.

Also since software was largely non-GUI (ie. CLI) based, applications were very small.

You would have tow drives, A: and B:. Here the system would be booted from A: drive, and the system floppy could then be ejected (or retained).

Applications such as Wordstar were available on floppy, which was inserted in A: drive. All documents created and personal storage was on a separate floppy in B: drive.

 

[koolbluez]

by default, no.. there is no B: drive, as they r meant for floppies. But u can make any drive B:., esp virtual drives

 

[gary4gar]

B: drive letter is reserved for 5.25" floppy drives, now we don't need a 5.25" floppy drive(even now there is no need for 1.44mb drive), u can change this to anything u like

 

[ahref]

If you use two FDD then one will be a: and other will be b: also any fdd can be accessed through dos by writing b:

 

[Arsenal_Gunners]

Another guy has this query check this *ask.yahoo.com/20050304.html
and this *www.worldstart.com/tips/tips.php/758

 

[aditya.shevade]

But what if I install 3 floppy drives? or more?

 

[Lucky_star]

But what if I install 3 floppy drives? or more?

Probably the First drive will be A:, second B: and the third will be the next available drive letter.

 

[aditya.shevade]

Probably the First drive will be A:, second B: and the third will be the next available drive letter.

In short, there seems to be no logic behind this at all. Maybe MS people like C letter more than they like a or b.

 

[Arsenal_Gunners]

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[pro]

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can't stop...
how did you made that ??

 

[Arsenal_Gunners]

found it on the internet

 

[s18000rpm]

you'll find the Smileys here *www.thesmilies.com/

 

[koolbluez]

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[mehulved]

But what if I install 3 floppy drives? or more?

Is there any place to install a 3rd floppy drive?

 

[aditya.shevade]

^^here is a nice smilie avatar for you *www.asterixatletiek.nl/2005/babbelix/smilies/toilet.gif

What have I done to you? Or is it that you love MS?
__________

Is there any place to install a 3rd floppy drive?

Well you can always make room for adding more things. Say I bought a docking station, with a port to install new drive.

 

[Arsenal_Gunners]

No I just watched your avatar and found it quite similar to this one.

 

[aditya.shevade]

In that case. It's fine. But how can you compare a computer with a toilet? Is there any connection that I am unaware of?

 

[Lucky_star]

In that case. It's fine. But how can you compare a computer with a toilet? Is there any connection that I am unaware of?

Computers have a general principle; Garbage In Garbage Out(GIGO)
But here?? Who knows?