Why dont we have local drives in computer with letters A nd B.

[pmandele9]

Why dont we have local drives in computer with letters A nd B.
i.e We cannot create local disk A or B

[Hemedi Hatibu]

On Monday, April 15, 2013 2:46:12 PM UTC+3, pmandele9 wrote:

Why dont we have local drives in computer with letters A nd B.
i.e We cannot create local disk A or B

Dear Poul! i think this is a correct answer.....
 The A: and B: drives on a desktop computer are reserved in the BIOS for floppy disk drives. As most computers only come with one floppy disk drive only the A: drive will be visible in file explorer. If a second floppy disk drive is fitted then both A: and B: drives will be visible.
regard
Hemedi

[Joel Ngushwai]

In computers, active storage drives are automatically assigned a drive
letter, beginning with the letter A. The DOS operating system followed
the drive letter with a colon, as in A: . Prior to flash memory
devices, computers incorporated floppy disk drives for portable
storage, so the A and B drive letters were preserved by the system to
be assigned to these devices. This left C as the first letter
available for the hard disk. So it is that the hard disk became known
as the C: drive.

In days past hard disks were small enough that they were not divided
into partitions, so a single drive letter was all that was required.
The operating system was always installed on the C: drive and
virtually all instructions for software and device drivers also
referred to the C: drive. Today it’s a different story.

Today’s hard disks are often several hundred gigabytes, or even as
much as a terabyte, and growing. Generally, computer users find that
dividing large disks into several partitions or sections is handy for
organization. In some cases it is even required by the computer’s BIOS
and/or operating system. With each additional partition created on the
drive, the system assigns a new, sequential drive letter that it
handles as a separate storage device. Thus, a “C: drive” today might
only refer to a very small portion of a much larger disk that houses
several additional drive letters.

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[Alichelaus Alex]

this changes according to the generation of computer,at the first generation it was easy to have local driver A, because a flop disk was used for installation &at 2rd gen it was allowed to creates A&B.But this 3rd gene its allow the user to creates C,D AND ........

[Paul Mandele]

thanks for your contributions.

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 2:29 AM, Alichelaus Alex <alexali...@yahoo.com> wrote:

this changes according to the generation of computer,at the first generation it was easy to have local driver A, because a flop disk was used for installation &at 2rd gen it was allowed to creates A&B.But this 3rd gene its allow the user to creates C,D AND ........

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