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minus-squareLaser@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days agoAnything after C:\ was basically as you wanted, no? It might have been an optical drive, it might have been a second HDD.
minus-squareSavarosa@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·10 days 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.
minus-squareSchemen110676@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·9 days 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-squareJcbAzPx@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 days agoMade 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.
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.