2007-01-30 16:04:39 · 9 answers · asked by Jessica P 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
The A: drive is the designation usually reserved for a floppy drive. Most PC's don't even have one nowadays.
A: used to be the primary floppy drive and B: the secondary one. That's why most hard drives are tagged C:.
Try saving your file to your hard drive, or get a USB stick and save it there.
2007-01-30 16:10:25 · answer #1 · answered by zudnic 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That's your floppy disk drive. If you want to save, open, or otherwise access something on your A: drive, you have to have a floppy disk in the slot. Personally I'd recommend creating a Pictures folder on your C: drive because floppies are way too easy to lose.
2007-01-30 16:19:31 · answer #2 · answered by tkron31 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The A:\ drive is usually the floppy disk drive and unless you have put a 3.25" floppy disk in the drive you will not be able to find the drive. As a side note, these disks usually only hold 1.4 MB of data so any large file will not fit on the disk.
2007-01-30 16:11:13 · answer #3 · answered by N_lien 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A: drive is generally a floppy drive. So, if the floppy is not inserted in the computer, it should give an error message when trying to save something.
2007-01-30 16:21:36 · answer #4 · answered by grand_capitol 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your A drive is a 3.5 floppy, its not very big and has those little square disks...
Why would you want to save it there?
The A drive is not like your C: drive, you need a disk in it to save it to the disk... then you can take the disk to work or something, and you would not be able to fit many pics on a disk...
Its better to save it to somewhere else, like your pictures, or something.. If you need to move it somewhere else say your friends house, Email it or upload it to a "Free online web storage" site.
2007-01-30 16:11:32 · answer #5 · answered by ntlgnce 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Long ago computers came with removable drives which were designated A: and B:. If your machine has a floppy/stiffy drive it will be one of those. Your hard drives will be C: D: etc and CD ROM etc will take whatever letter is after that up to z:
2007-01-30 16:48:52 · answer #6 · answered by Mwendamberi 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
usually a is the floppy disk drive. If your computer is newer you may not have an a or yours might be a read only CD or DVD drive. If you don't have a burner or writable drive you can't save to a CD or DVD.
2007-01-30 16:11:55 · answer #7 · answered by Makemeaspark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quit using A drives. That's a sure way to lose your data. Use your hard disk and then back up on CDs or external hard disk.
2007-01-30 16:12:36 · answer #8 · answered by JiveSly 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its Floppy disc drive. You must insert a disc called discette(i might be wrong for the name) for storage media. That disc will only stores 1.4 MB. So its sucks when you want to store files to such portable media. Thanks God then they found USB Flash Drive! Much faster and bigger capacity than that disc (128MB, 256MB, 512MB, 1G and more).
2007-01-30 16:15:00 · answer #9 · answered by maxiangelo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋