No Ghost Drives in Windows NT (101226)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Windows NT Server 3.1
- Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 3.1
This article was previously published under Q101226 SUMMARY
MS-DOS supports the concept of ghost drives, where on a machine with a
single floppy drive, MS-DOS pretends that drives A and B both exist.
If the user last referenced the floppy as A, and then references B,
MS-DOS prompts the user to insert the correct floppy disk in the
floppy drive.
Windows NT does not support ghost drives. Ghost drives were
particularly useful back in the days of no hard disk and only one
floppy, and gradually the use of ghosts evolved to the point where the
only useful thing you could do was to copy a disk from A to B. MS-DOS
6.0 allows you to DISKCOPY from A to A, and it will prompt you to
insert the different floppies at the correct times. Windows NT also
supports copying a disk from A to A. As a result, the ghost feature is
not supported.
| Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 10/29/2003 |
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| Keywords: | kbother KB101226 |
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