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Zim Hosein

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Originally posted by: her209
I propose we do away with drive letters.

What do we use then? Animal names? Mouse is already taken though! :p
 

Zim Hosein

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Originally posted by: Spydermag68
Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Originally posted by: her209
I propose we do away with drive letters.

What do we use then? Animal names? Mouse is already taken though! :p

Numbers they are infinite!

We don't need infinite, 26 letters was more than enough! :)
 

pontifex

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Originally posted by: darkxshade
I know a long time ago in a galaxy far far away the B:\ was used for the 5.25 floppy drives. The thing is, I don't even use the 3.5s anymore and in time A:\ will also be forgotten. What makes them so special that we can't touch them? I can set my optical drives to any letter cept A-C. They should consider giving A: & B: a comeback tour by letting it handle any drives we wish to set it to because I miss them :(

because they are pretty much worthless now.
cds are dirt cheap and can hold waaaay more data. usb flash drives are here and make transporting data even easier.
i'm not saying they don't have their uses, but they don't often come up with modern day computers.
 

Shawn

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Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Originally posted by: Spydermag68
Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Originally posted by: her209
I propose we do away with drive letters.

What do we use then? Animal names? Mouse is already taken though! :p

Numbers they are infinite!

We don't need infinite, 26 letters was more than enough! :)

what happens when you have more than 26 drives?
 

Zim Hosein

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Originally posted by: Shawn
Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Originally posted by: Spydermag68
Originally posted by: Zim Hosein
Originally posted by: her209
I propose we do away with drive letters.

What do we use then? Animal names? Mouse is already taken though! :p

Numbers they are infinite!

We don't need infinite, 26 letters was more than enough! :)

what happens when you have more than 26 drives?

Number 27 and higher aren't recognized? :confused: