Comments on: Ever Wonder Where Your B: Drive Is?

By: Andrew Milnthorpe

Andrew Milnthorpe — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 21:39:35 +0000

I have a small home network and always designate a network drive to be “B:\” in order to fill up the slot. It works, and, unlike a second floppy drive, doesn’t crash the computer (it did crash when I tried plugging in a USB floppy drive as well as the internal one).

By: Adam Lyttle

Adam Lyttle — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 12:05:01 +0000

I used to own a computer that required two floppy drives.. One to boot, one to load the operating system off. Wow, I feel old.

By: Phill Bryant

Phill Bryant — Mon, 07 Mar 2005 03:47:43 +0000

I always thought that A: was the 3 1/2 inch floppy drive and B: was the 5 1/4 inch drive (remember those :).

By: ScottyWH

ScottyWH — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 17:51:34 +0000

I kept two floppis in all of my systems up until about 5 years ago mainly just because I liked being able to dupe a floppy without swapping… LOL.

By: Lew

Lew — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 17:24:33 +0000

You could also say copy a: b: to duplicate disks on systems with only one floppy drive. It would take it in turns to be a: then prompt for the disk to be known as b:

By: Honus

Honus — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 16:44:32 +0000

This is why I map my flash drive to B at work where I have a gazillion network drives.