Foreign drive
Mini laptops do not come with a disk drive so therefore you don't need a disk drive. This means you cannot play any games or watch DVDs!
The "A:" drive is the first floppy disk drive.
In Windows, Drive C: is the first hard drive.On the PC compatibles (DOS then Windows, which was a program running under DOS), drive A: was reserved for the first floppy disk drive and B: for the second floppy disk drive. Drive C: was reserved for the first hard drive.Many computers don't even have floppy drives anymore, but the first hard drive is still labeled C:
basic disk status
The first removable disk appeared in 1962. IBM created it for its IBM 311 drive, and it was called the IBM 1316 disk pack.
The difference between a drive and disk is that a drive is used to read a disk whether it be a floppy disk or a compact disk.
The first hard drive was made in Silicon Vally. The hard drive was made by a company, IBM.
A long time ago...... The first disk the computer was programmed to access was the Floppy Drive a 5 1/4 or a 3 1/2 single platter floppy disk. This historically was the first boot since the operating system was needed. This was before Hard disks and way before CDROM or DVDROM. Since the first disk to be accessed was given the label A and was the floppy drive the Hard Disk was given the label B.
Hard Disk Drive.
First, that should never happen, but if it does, the drive could be damaged and might be misaligned. After you get the damaged disk out, try reading an older disk, something that you don't care if it's destroyed. If you can read the disk without scratching it the drive is probably ok. Otherwise, get a new drive.
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