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Anonymous
2021-03-17T17:53:46+00:00

Is there any caveat in assigning drive letter "A:" or "B:" to a DVD drive?

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  1. Anonymous
    2021-03-17T22:22:27+00:00

    The big caveat is that 'A' and 'B' were formerly used for diskette drives. Even though internal diskette drives disappeared from computers years ago, software is still written so as to avoid writing to A and B drives. It's just so much easier, given how many other letters there are in the alphabet, to avoid A and B.

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  2. Anonymous
    2021-03-17T18:28:45+00:00

    Hi, I'm Elise, an independent advisor and I'd be happy to help with your issue.

    Not really any more, older application may only look for D: drive, but this isn’t the case with newer apps.

    Please let me know if you need any further assistance.

    Kind Regards,

    Elise

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  3. Anonymous
    2021-03-17T18:21:12+00:00

    Yeah that shouldn't be an issue, go ahead.

    Any issues, just switch back. :)

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  4. Anonymous
    2021-03-17T18:13:48+00:00

    No particular need currently, just that sometimes I map quite a few NAS drive folders to drive letters. So just thought about reassigning the DVD to either A: or B: out of the way.

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  5. Anonymous
    2021-03-17T17:59:02+00:00

    Is there any caveat in assigning drive letter "A:" or "B:" to a DVD drive?

    Hi, 

    There is usually no caveat in doing this, unless an application or windows thinks that the drive is a different drive to the one you have specified. 

    Why do you need to change the drive letter anyway?

    Cheers!

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