Re:Hacked Together 118 GB Floppy Disk
by digi_owl on Friday February 26, 2016 @05:45PM
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> Windows still refers to devices by physical location.
Nope, not since NT. I learned that the hard way when moving a HDD containing Win2k around. Even though it was hooked to IDE master it would come up as D: as that was what it was assigned after it got formated with NTFS.
You can go into disk manager and assign a partition any letter than is not already in use.
You can even mount a partition into a existing FHS, much like on unix, but i can't say i have seen it used often.
Basically the letters are there for backwards compatibility.
Nope, not since NT. I learned that the hard way when moving a HDD containing Win2k around. Even though it was hooked to IDE master it would come up as D: as that was what it was assigned after it got formated with NTFS.
You can go into disk manager and assign a partition any letter than is not already in use.
You can even mount a partition into a existing FHS, much like on unix, but i can't say i have seen it used often.
Basically the letters are there for backwards compatibility.