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Can I install Windows 7 in A:\ or B:\ partition names?

Fresh3 days ago
Mar 15, 20263610 views
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Some years ago (actually decades now), when Windows 95 (or even 3.11) came, "A:\" and "B:\" partition names were reserved to the old magnetic removable discs (also known as Floppy Disks). However, today it is a forgotten standard and we don't see it embedded anymore on any new machines(actually, if…

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Drive letters, such as A: B: C: are not partitions. Partitions are logical divisions on storage media. Drive letters are logical assignments to a file system made by the OS. Drive letters can be removeable media, hard disks, and other parts of a fil…

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