http://vo243techtricks.blogspot.com/
Here is a blog which has paid for itself the first time I used it, since it indicated that the B: drive is now assignable in Windows 2003 Server -- this is almost enough to get me to buy it for home use, and the first workstation version of Windows which comes with an assignable B: I will buy regardless of Product Activation [gag me with a spoon!] irritations.
The fact is that I have long held on to 5.25 drives as being more reliable floppy media than the 1.44, but my latest main home system, which I bought about 1.5 years ago, did not have a B: drive nor could I get one configured. There is no way to express how it bothered me not to have a B: drive, though I have suggested an irritation index above. The fact that Real Soon Now I will transfer over most of my 5.25" files to one [!] CD, and will not, as a regular practice, need a B: drive [actually, on most of my systems the A: drive was 5.25" and the B: was the 3.5"] simply makes this news all that much more of a lift.
Sometimes it is the smallest thing which bring the greatest joy....
Posted by jho at August 14, 2003 09:53 PM