Best drive for DVD REW

[eXistenZ]

Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit
Service Pack 2
Single user
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Current drive is B
Is this OK or should I change it to
another drive letter?

Any help or advice appreciated
eXistenZ

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit
Service Pack 2
Single user
--------------
Current drive is B
Is this OK or should I change it to
another drive letter?

Any help or advice appreciated
eXistenZ

It shouldn't be B:, which normally means a floppy disk drive.

Why not just let Windows assign it?

I'm assuming you meant a "DVD RW drive", since there's no such thing as
a "DVD REW".

 

[MerseyBeat]

Gene,

I'm not sure you convinced me with your logic. You have convinced me of
your age, though.

It shouldn't be B:, which normally means a floppy disk drive

The assigned drive letter is essentially only a label for the hardware
device. Whatever it "normally means" is irrelevent. Besides, in this
particular case, who uses floppy disks anymore ? When was the last time you
used a floppy disk?
Assigning a hardware device the drive letter A or B should not produce any
untoward effects.

It would have made more sense many years ago when computers came with
floppy disk drives. Today's analogy would be to avoid using the drive
letters "D" and "E" because they are normally assigned to CD and DVD drives,
respectively. Even that doesn't hold water because you can have a
combination drive.

Now, I will admit that tradition and "usual" computer protocol would
recommend that assigned drive letters avoid using A,B, obviously C, D and E.

Cheers,
MB

 

[Tim Slattery]

It shouldn't be B:, which normally means a floppy disk drive.

Well yeah, but how many computers still have floppy drives? A: and B:
normally aren't used anymore, but there's no reason they shouldn't be.
If this setup works for OP, I don't see any reason why he should fix
it.

Why not just let Windows assign it?

Always a good idea.

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Assigning a hardware device the drive letter A or B should not produce any
untoward effects.

"should" != "doesn't"

 

[Gene E. Bloch]

Well yeah, but how many computers still have floppy drives? A: and B:
normally aren't used anymore, but there's no reason they shouldn't be.
If this setup works for OP, I don't see any reason why he should fix
it.


Always a good idea.

If this works for the OP, why is he asking? Just asking

At least you gave some advice to the OP, rather than limiting your
remarks to criticism of what I said ;-)

I have a floppy disk drive, and I have used it in the last few months.
It was needed to install drivers during the creation of a boot CD for a
BU program called Casper, and it wasn't used during a regular Windows
session, so the above discussion is moot in this case.

Not only that, the driver installation didn't work. That's part of a
long story that made me stop recommending Casper, based on the failure
of the standard boot CD on my computer, and the support team (one
person, AFAICT) thrusting the problem onto me to solve. OK, he really
didn't thrust it onto me: because he gave no useful help for the
problem, I just took it on myself - and failed

BTW, the floppy drive worked fine, I just couldn't track down drivers
that worked