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From: Tom MacIntyre
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:00

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"Aaron" <chaaron@lave.net> wrote:

>
>Plato <25@62.4> wrote in message <37BA0B0F.5145@62.4>...
>>Rod Speed wrote:
>>>
>>> >> It eliminates the problem of the drive lettering changing when you put
>another
>>> >> hard drive into the system, if only as a destination for quick backups
>etc.
>>>
>>> > Thats why on every new system or redone system the cdrom get
>>> > to be drive R and any other IDE nonHDD get letters after that
>>>
>>> Doesnt help with a boot drive with more than one partition
>>> when you add a hard drive with a primary dos partition on it.
>>
>>sure it does, your not going to reach drive R unless you have what, 18
>>partitions or so which is so unlikely no?
>
>Shows the stupidity of using the letters for drive names anyway.  You can
>put a label on each drive, but you can't access them with the label. Why?
>
>That is one of the nice things I remember from Linux, and the little Unix
>I saw in the military.  You create a partition, either the whole hard disk,
>or only part of it, and give it a volume label.  Then you can access it
>with that volume label.
>
>Why didn't Microsoft think of this when they started?
>--
>Aaron Marks
>
>
One example of how being different for the sake of it, if that's what
happened, isn't always the best way. Wrestling with changing drive
assignments, given the way Windows works, IS not fun.

Tom

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From: tmacinty@ns.sympatico.ca (Tom MacIntyre)
Subject: Re: help, windows will only start in safe mode
Date: 1999/08/18
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