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  2. Drive letter assignment - Wikipedia

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    Assign the drive letter A: to the first floppy disk drive (drive 0), and B: to the second floppy disk drive (drive 1). If only one physical floppy is present, drive B: will be assigned to a phantom floppy drive mapped to the same physical drive and dynamically assigned to either A: or B: for easier floppy file operations.

  3. vol (command) - Wikipedia

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    vol [Drive:] Arguments: Drive: This command-line argument specifies the drive letter of the disk for which to display the volume label and serial number. Note: On Windows, the volume serial number is displayed only for disks formatted with MS-DOS version 4.0 or later. OS/2 allows the user to specify more than one drive.

  4. SUBST - Wikipedia

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    Create the proper registry keys for the host drive letter (optional, works around the host drive label override caveat); Re-create the SUBST drive to see label changes applied. Note that the LABEL command is NOT able to change the label name of a drive letter created using subst. [8] LABEL is one of several commands that only work on physical ...

  5. Drive mapping - Wikipedia

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    Drive mapping is how MS-DOS and Microsoft Windows associate a local drive letter (A-Z) with a shared storage area to another computer (often referred as a File Server) over a network. After a drive has been mapped , a software application on a client 's computer can read and write files from the shared storage area by accessing that drive, just ...

  6. List of DOS commands - Wikipedia

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    The name derives from IBM's habit of calling hard drives fixed disks. FDISK has the ability to display information about, create, and delete DOS partitions or logical DOS drive. It can also install a standard master boot record on the hard drive. The command is available in MS-DOS versions 3.2 and later and IBM PC DOS 2.0 releases and later. [1]

  7. Drive Letter Access - Wikipedia

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    Drive Letter Access (DLA) is a discontinued commercial packet writing application for the Microsoft Windows operating system that allows optical disc data storage devices to be used in a manner similar to floppy disks. DLA is a packet writing technology for CD and DVD media that uses the UDF file system.

  8. Bernoulli Box - Wikipedia

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    In theory this makes the Bernoulli drive more reliable than a contemporary hard disk drive, since a head crash is impossible. The original disk cartridges came in capacities of 5, 10, and 20 MB; they are 8.23 x 11.02 x 0.71 inches, [ 1 ] about the size of a standard piece of letter paper but thicker.

  9. Microsoft Office XML formats - Wikipedia

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    Besides differences in the schema, there are several other differences between the earlier Office XML schema formats and Office Open XML. Whereas the data in Office Open XML documents is stored in multiple parts and compressed in a ZIP file conforming to the Open Packaging Conventions, Microsoft Office XML formats are stored as plain single monolithic XML files (making them quite large ...