Second HDD!? What for? Did you ran out of your 36MB? *
*36mb was my first drive I can remember clearly - when we got it we thought we would never run out of space. Obviously HDDs didn’t start at 36 - not even at 16.
D: E: etc just get assigned as you added drives. D: was usually the CD drive because usually people only had 1 hard drive. I had 3 at one point and my CD drive was F:
D: was usually a cd drive, and E: was the second cd but this time it wrote those disks.
Then later E became D, and died such…
Anything after C:\ was basically as you wanted, no? It might have been an optical drive, it might have been a second HDD.
Second HDD!? What for? Did you ran out of your 36MB? *
*36mb was my first drive I can remember clearly - when we got it we thought we would never run out of space. Obviously HDDs didn’t start at 36 - not even at 16.
Even C could be what you wanted.
But since you needed A and often had B because of two different disk sizes C was the first open slot.
In theory you could mix and match but a lot of software didnt work with that and it was better to stick to this informal convention
Made it really awkward when your “data only” D: drive died and you suddenly find out the windows installer decided to put the boot sector there.
No, of course you can’t just reinstall the OS, there’s an irreplaceable license tied to it. If we can’t get it working, the company dies. Good luck.
And when you installed a game using one CD drive but dared to want to play it from the other the next day because the first was busy…
D: E: etc just get assigned as you added drives. D: was usually the CD drive because usually people only had 1 hard drive. I had 3 at one point and my CD drive was F:
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