Why do we still have to use drive letters to identify file systems?
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Mar 15, 20262194 viewsConfidence Score0%
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A friend has run into a problem where they installed Windows 7 from an external drive, and the internal boot drive is now assigned to H:. Theoretically this shouldn't cause problems because there are programming interfaces for getting the drive letter for the system drive. In practice though, there…
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Microsoft has always made backwards compatibility a huge priority. It is exactly because of all those applications which assume , or even the generic pattern of that they can't move to a structure like UNIX. All Windows applications are based on the…
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