Drive sorting procedure

oxygene · 28 Apr 2008 at 16:25

Basically I was looking through my drive lettering in windows and thought... why oh why is there still a drive A and B. no one I know still uses floppy disks or even has a floppy drive in their pc. So why still have those letters reserved? Why cant they be dynamic like other drive lettering for hds and opticals. Although everyone knows their boot disks as drive C and this would casue confusion...

Anyhow my point is, isnt it time for a revolution on the way drives are sorted? Either making them labled by number, or at least starting with the boot disk at A?

Discuss

Lashout_UK · 28 Apr 2008 at 16:28

I still have and use a floppy drive, need it for the CNC milling machines. So nerrrr

Quite a satisying old thing hearing the drive spin up. A rare noise today!

lokkers · 28 Apr 2008 at 16:30

I believe MS are doing away with the concept of lettered drives in Windows 7. Sure I remember NathanE mentioning this.

SourChipmunk · 28 Apr 2008 at 16:30

Virtual disks still use A: and B: at times, necessary for some firmware updates and such. AFAIK, this isn't a Windows reservation, but a system BIOS reservation.

oxygene · 29 Apr 2008 at 08:46

thats true, bios updates and such sometimes still need floppys, but most things should be a lot more dynamic these days. Meh. Interested about the comment about windows 7 though...

lokkers · 29 Apr 2008 at 13:57

oxygene said:
Interested about the comment about windows 7 though...

Don't hold me to that, I've slept since then!

Green-Peace · 29 Apr 2008 at 14:21

oxygene said:
thats true, bios updates and such sometimes still need floppys, but most things should be a lot more dynamic these days. Meh. Interested about the comment about windows 7 though...

Would not trust a BIOS update on the inherently unreliable floppy disc tbh. If you must do it in DOS then use a decent USB Pen or CD/DVD. Personally I use windows GUI's for BIOS updates now, not had a single issue and must have done well over a hundred in the last few years!!
The most important thing when updating your BIOS is to make sure your system is 100% stable beforehand.
Not had a floppy in my computers for a good few years now and unless you use specialist equipment that requires them then their is no need for them in PC's these days imho.