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Safe to use drive letter A?

EonityLuna
By EonityLuna
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My system has a built-in SD card reader, and the drive that corresponds to the reader is currently assigned to the letter G. I have been thinking of assigning it the letter A, but given the historical use of that letter for floppy disc drives (which I obviously don't have and don't use on my system anymore), I'm afraid that it might cause issues or conflicts if I do so. So I'm asking: is it safe for me to set my SD card reader to use the letter A? Will there be any problems or issues if I do so?

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Nope, no issues that I can think of. As you said, it's more of a legacy windows thing to leave "A" reserved for a floppy drive. Any new devices or network volumes can just be mounted to any of the remaining drive letters. By the same token, there's also no particular reason TO assign your SD-card reader to "A" other than where it shows up in the order of devices.

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