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The A: and B: drives on a desktop computer are reserved in the BIOS for floppy disk drives. As most computers only come with one floppy disk drive only the A: drive will be visible in file explorer. If a second floppy disk drive is fitted then both A: and B: drives will be visible. Computers used to have a B: drive. It was the second floppy drive. Since people no longer copy from one floppy to another, the B: drive (and on some newer models the A: drive) has become obsolete.
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 16y agoIf I remember correctly, when hard drives started getting common in personal computers (in the mid-80s), generally computers had two floppy drives, designated a: and b:, so the hard drive was called c:. Later, the convention was to have the a: drive be a 5 1/4'' drive, and to have the b: drive be a smaller 3 1/2'' drive.
Nowadays, since the use of floppies is much less common (and since the need to transfer directly from one floppy to another without copying to hard disk has virtually disappeared), PCs generally only have one floppy drive (if at all), designated by Windows as a:. The hard disk is still c:, so there is no b: drive.
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what is the l drive in a computer
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