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Name: GGMarquez100 Date: February 9, 2008 at 17:20:13 Pacific OS: windows 2000 CPU/Ram: ? Product: Dell Optiplex GX110
Comment:
If logical drives are actually partitions on my hard drive, why does Windows 2000 refer to my floppy (A:) and cd-rom (D:) drives as logical drives in my computer management (MMC) window? I thought these would be physical drives.
Name: GGMarquez100 Date: February 12, 2008 at 11:43:33 Pacific
Reply:
I understand the difference between physical and logical drives. That's what's driving my confusion about why my MMC is calling my physical drives (floppy and CD-ROM) logical drives. Why would my MMC call these drives logical drives instead of physical drives?
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Response Number 4
Name: seawatch Date: February 14, 2008 at 16:57:57 Pacific
Reply:
Because they are "physical" drives to you, not the computer.
It's an electronic thing not a physical one.
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Response Number 5
Name: Rambler Date: February 25, 2008 at 16:56:49 Pacific
Reply:
Because the floppy and CDROM drives use removable media.
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