usually for a floppy disk.. the driver is called drive A
for a removeable disk (thumb drive).. it is drive f
for the hard disk, it's drive c and d
2007-07-20 17:38:26 · 8 answers · asked by Christopher Andrew 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
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By tradition, more than any technical reason, drives A and B are reserved for floppies. When I started with computers in the early nineties, drive A was for the 720 K disks which looked kind of like the 1.4 MB, or 3.1 inch, ones we have today. Drive B was reserved for the 360 K, or 5.1 inch, disks which were in a cardboard jacket, and which, I don't think are used much anymore, if at all.
2007-07-20 17:54:51 · answer #1 · answered by geniepiper 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There was a drive B which was specifically for the floppy disk i.e, 5.1 inch.
That is a floppy disk which is larger in size than the normal floppy (3.1inch)which we know today.
This drive was used in the olden days i.e, the system previous to pentium MMX which uses DOS as operating system
Thanx.
2007-07-20 17:50:10 · answer #2 · answered by Aleem 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We used to have b drives, hmmm. A was for the floppy and b was for the little hard disks that we used to save our stuff to.
2007-07-20 17:47:45 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-22 05:31:12 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, there was a time when we had 'B' drives, it was for the 5 1/4" floppy disks. Wow that's a flashback, to the days of Pong, and Tandy.Those disks keld a whopping 90k of information.
Thanks for making me feel old...LOL
2007-07-20 17:53:21 · answer #5 · answered by Michael H 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
there's no reason why NT/2K/XP couldn't have used A: and B: for something other than the floppy drives. The BIOS itself doesn't 'reserve' the A: and B: drive letters. Nor does it even refer to them as such. Yes, it mentions them in most BIOS setup utilities, but it's just showing the equivalent human-speak for however it refers to them
2007-07-20 17:45:29 · answer #6 · answered by lee l 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It used to be in the Eighties not any more used to be drive a:\ 1.44 drive b:\ and drive c:\ all used to work on dos 3
2007-07-20 17:45:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Drives a and b are reserved for floppies. c and D are for hard drives, and e-z are for otherlike thumb drives and and sd cards
2007-07-20 17:43:53 · answer #8 · answered by Cheese Lover Bob 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋