A floppy disk or floppy diskette (casually referred to as a floppy, a diskette, or a disk) is a type of disk storage composed of a thin and flexible disk of a magnetic storage medium in a square or nearly square plastic enclosure lined with a fabric that …

A floppy drive (often called drives “A” and “B” on a computer running DOS or Windows) can be connected to or installed in a personal computer (PC). It is the part of a computer that reads and writes the disk that can be removed. A disk, often called a floppy disk, is used to store files and carry them from one computer to another by using

2015年1月10日 · "You can assign the letters C through Z to each drive on your computer. A and B are usually reserved for floppy disk drives, but if your computer does not have floppy disk drives, you can assign A and B to volumes."

2017年1月15日 · You can assign the letters C through Z to each drive on your computer. A and B are usually reserved for floppy disk drives, but if your computer does not have floppy disk drives, you can assign A and B to volumes.

Floppy disks were an almost universal data format from the 1970s into the 1990s, used for primary data storage as well as for backup and data transfers between computers. In 1967, at an IBM facility in San Jose, California, work began on a drive that led to the world's first floppy disk and disk drive. [1]

2015年12月18日 · Short Version: A: & B: are reserved by floppy disk drives, so C: is used by hard drives for backwards compatibility reasons.

A B drive is typically used to refer to the second removable storage medium in a computer system, following the A drive which usually represents the primary floppy disk drive. In modern systems, the concept of A and B drives has become less common with the shift away from floppy disks to other storage solutions like USB drives and cloud storage.

2024年9月6日 · A hard disk is a high-capacity, durable storage device that uses magnetic disks to store data, offering faster access and larger storage compared to a floppy disk, Where as Floppy disks are portable, low-capacity storage devices that were popular in earlier computing, but are now obsolete due to limited space and slow performance.

Long time ago in ancient history computers could have both 3.5" and 5.25" floppy disk drives before the latter one died out, leaving B:\ obsolete and now the A:\ drive is also obsolete when people moved on to CDs.

2023年9月20日 · I planned to downgrade the system to 98 (as originally) by using boot floppy disk + CD with the OS, I have both external and working floppy drive and CD drive connected with USB, however the floppy drive presents as "B" on my system. I can't boot from floppy to install the system because BIOS reads only A floppy disk drive which is damaged so I ...