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Using B: or even A: as drive letters
I stumbled of a support question in a game forum, the guy had bought a new HDD and seemingly assigned its drive letter to B: .
Now, for us older geeks we do recall that A and B was reserved for floppy, but it seems Windows still has issues using those letter for primary drive designation. I searched a bit and found this:
from: What Are the Windows A: and B: Drives Used For? which is from 2015.You can assign the letters C through Z to each drive on your computer. A and B are usually reserved for floppy disk drives, but if your computer does not have floppy disk drives, you can assign A and B to volumes.
So when I built a new computer recently with two internal drives, one for the OS and one for data, I thought, hey!, I’ll make my data drive “A”. I felt all rebellious until I discovered that Windows will not index drives lettered A or B.
Took me quite a while to figure out what the problem was, but I found some other people who suffered the same issue when they used A or B for a [primary] drive. As soon as I assigned that drive a different letter, windows indexed the drive. So much for being rebellious.
Have we not advanced further in drive management?