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there is no hard drive why?
Name: iced Date: June 5, 2005 at 17:05:11 Pacific OS: windows 98 CPU/Ram: pentium 2 512 ram
Comment:
its a simple question but not sure how to answer it.
i have no hard drive installed or cdrom, when i insert the floppy why does it say there is a c drive with system files on it?
If by "the floppy" you're referring to a standard Win98 bootdisk - many of those create a temporary RAM drive, which is assigned the first available drive letter - if there is no hard disk, then the RAM drive becomes "C:"
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
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