23-01-2007, 02:41 AM
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why there is nothing like B Drive??
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...)
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23-01-2007, 04:01 AM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
I think a and b are reserved for floppy drives. So, if you have 2 floppy drives you will have a B:\ too.
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23-01-2007, 04:08 AM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
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.
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23-01-2007, 06:57 AM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
by default, no.. there is no B: drive, as they r meant for floppies. But u can make any drive B:., esp virtual drives 
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23-01-2007, 12:02 PM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
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
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23-01-2007, 03:22 PM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
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:
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23-01-2007, 04:52 PM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
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25-01-2007, 12:09 AM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
But what if I install 3 floppy drives? or more?
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25-01-2007, 12:24 AM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
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But what if I install 3 floppy drives? or more?
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Probably the First drive will be A:, second B: and the third will be the next available drive letter.
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25-01-2007, 12:35 AM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
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Probably the First drive will be A:, second B: and the third will be the next available drive letter.
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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.
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25-01-2007, 12:41 AM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
Last edited by Arsenal_Gunners; 25-01-2007 at 01:02 AM.
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25-01-2007, 12:55 AM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
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how did you made that ?? 
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25-01-2007, 01:02 AM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
found it on the internet
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25-01-2007, 01:10 AM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
you'll find the Smileys here http://www.thesmilies.com/
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25-01-2007, 01:13 AM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Nice find maan...  reps to u...
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25-01-2007, 01:18 AM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
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But what if I install 3 floppy drives? or more?
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Is there any place to install a 3rd floppy drive?
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25-01-2007, 01:21 AM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
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Is there any place to install a 3rd floppy drive?
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Well you can always make room for adding more things. Say I bought a docking station, with a port to install new drive.
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25-01-2007, 01:22 AM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
No I just watched your avatar and found it quite similar to this one.
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25-01-2007, 01:23 AM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
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?
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25-01-2007, 01:27 AM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
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Originally Posted by 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?
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Computers have a general principle; Garbage In Garbage Out(GIGO)
But here?? Who knows?
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25-01-2007, 01:32 AM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
Toilets don't have garbage out function(well,they have but its hidden)
Just saw a hand coming out of computer and hitting the smiley,just like mine.
Stop doing the postmortem of this now
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25-01-2007, 02:11 AM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
Son they wont be a A: Drive. Then our future generation will ask. We have c,d,e,f and why not A and B.
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25-01-2007, 01:15 PM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
EXACTLY ...........
bt y do u need 3 floopy drives ? they dont exist anymore ...........
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25-01-2007, 02:01 PM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
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But what if I install 3 floppy drives? or more?
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why don't you do that and see what happens 
by the way in very very old days, once upon a time when there used to be a device called the 5.1/4" Floppy Drives used to exist on the earth, B Drive was the letter assigned to such drives. Since I have seen Computers only 3.1/2" drives got extinct, then CD ROMs got extinct.
Ya one can technically may be have 4 Flopy dives, I mean you can have a master and a slave on 2 IDE ports, keep the cabin opne and have the Flopy Drives outside the system but then you can not have any HDD.
Sure it will create a master piece of a system. would not it??
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25-01-2007, 02:18 PM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
Even if can you get a custom made cabinet and all for 10 floppy drives, what are you gonna do of it? Show off? Now many people don't even have 1 floppy drive, then why worry about 2-3.
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25-01-2007, 02:38 PM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
^^ not to me i guess!?!?!?!?!
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25-01-2007, 02:49 PM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
hailgautam, that was to those people getting ideas of having 3 or more floppies. It's just a general statement made to the topic not to anyone specifically.
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25-01-2007, 06:54 PM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
The answer goes back to the glory days of floppy discs and DOS. The early DOS operating system designated two drives, A and B, strictly for floppy drives. Why? Because many early computers didn't have native hard drives -- they booted from Drive A, and ran applications from Drive B.
Later, as computers came with hard drives, the second floppy drive became a useless appendage -- the computer equivalent of an appendix. To avoid confusion during the evolutionary window when computers with new hard drives coexisted beside computers with two floppies, the hard drives were given the "C" slot.
Technically speaking, the "computer" isn't missing the B drive, it's just that later Microsoft operating systems have omitted it as unnecessary. You can read more about the ins and outs of archaic drive systems at Microsoft Support.
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25-01-2007, 06:57 PM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
fdds suck
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25-01-2007, 07:01 PM
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Re: why there is nothing like B Drive??
The answer goes back to the glory days of floppy discs and DOS. The early DOS operating system designated two drives, A and B, strictly for floppy drives. Why? Because many early computers didn't have native hard drives -- they booted from Drive A, and ran applications from Drive B.
Later, as computers came with hard drives, the second floppy drive became a useless appendage -- the computer equivalent of an appendix. To avoid confusion during the evolutionary window when computers with new hard drives coexisted beside computers with two floppies, the hard drives were given the "C" slot.
Technically speaking, the "computer" isn't missing the B drive, it's just that later Microsoft operating systems have omitted it as unnecessary. You can read more about the ins and outs of archaic drive systems at Microsoft Support.
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