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  2. Drive letter assignment - Wikipedia

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    On the Japanese PC-98, if the system is booted from floppy disk, the dedicated version of MS-DOS assigns letters to all floppy drives before considering hard drives; it does the opposite if it is booted from a hard drive, that is, if the OS was installed on the hard drive, MS-DOS would assign this drive as drive "A:" and a potentially existing ...

  3. 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 ...

  4. Drive Letter Access - Wikipedia

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    For Windows up to XP DLA will provide this functionality as well as the UDF support. Windows XP is the first Windows operating system to support DVD-RAM. Windows Vista is the first Windows operating system to support full UDF functionality (UDF up to version 2.50, full support meaning read and write operations) and Mount Rainier.

  5. List of DOS system files - Wikipedia

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    JOIN: Joins a drive letter to a subdirectory. LABEL: Set or remove a disk volume label. MEM: Display memory usage. MODE: Set modes for system devices. MORE: Display output one screen at a time. MOVE: Move files from one directory to another. PRINT: Print spooler. REPLACE: Replace files. SHARE: File sharing and locking support. SORT: Sorts input.

  6. Disk partitioning - Wikipedia

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    IBM in its 1983 release of PC DOS version 2.0 was an early if not first use of the term partition to describe dividing a block storage device such as an HDD into physical segments. The term's usage is now ubiquitous. [citation needed] Other terms used include logical disk, [4] minidisk, [5] portions, [6] pseudo-disk, [6] section, [6] slice [7 ...

  7. List of DOS commands - Wikipedia

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    The version included with PC DOS 3.0 and 3.1 is hard-coded to transfer the operating system from A: to B:, while from PC DOS 3.2 onward you can specify the source and destination, and can be used to install DOS to the harddisk. The version included with MS-DOS 4 and PC DOS 4 is no longer a simple command-line utility, but a full-fledged installer.

  8. 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 ...

  9. Windows XP editions - Wikipedia

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    A preview version of Windows XP Media Center Edition from Microsoft's eHome division, was shown as CES 2002, with the final version released in July 2002. [22] Windows XP Media Center Edition ("Freestyle", July 2002) [23] This was the original release. Updates to this release added features such as FM radio tuning.