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minus-squareSavarosa@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·8 hours agoD: 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…
minus-squareHupf@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·5 hours agoAnd 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…
minus-squareLaser@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·7 hours agoAnything after C:\ was basically as you wanted, no? It might have been an optical drive, it might have been a second HDD.
minus-squareSchemen110676@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 hour agoEven 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
minus-squareSavarosa@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·7 hours agoSecond 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: 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…
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…
Anything after C:\ was basically as you wanted, no? It might have been an optical drive, it might have been a second HDD.
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
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.
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