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From: Rod Speed
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 1999 00:00

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Aaron <chaaron@lave.net> wrote in message news:7pdp53$fcc$1@mochi.lava.net...
> 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.

True, its a real nuisance.

> You can put a label on each drive, but you
> can't access them with the label. Why?

Its designed like that.

> 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?

There are awkwiditys with any OS.

You dont have to fart around recompiling the kernal, unlike unix quite a bit of the time.

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Subject: Re: help, windows will only start in safe mode
Date: 1999/08/18
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