B drive?

As far as I understand it B drive was usually for the 5.12" disk (those were the days). So now that has gone extinct, why is B drive still reserved?

I have never tried to reassign drive name to B drive though. Maybe I should reassign my CD drive to B drive

>>1
One word: legacy. The trouble with Windows-based systems is that they still cling to many standards of their DOS heritage, drives A: and B: being one such standard. Some software *still* expects A: and B: to be floppy drives.

>>4
That is the case nowadays, but it didn't used to be. Back when 3.5" disks were the standard for data storage they actually seemed to be made better (both the drives and the disks). Back then you could buy a pack of 100 disks and maybe one or two would turn out to be duff. Nowadays it seems you get one or two bad disks in a pack of ten. I don't think the quality control is there any more.