Using Removable Disks and Floppy Disks

Most types of removable media can work with Window NT. Even though removable media are assigned a floppy disk icon in My Computer and Windows NT Explorer, they are not handled by the same part of the operating system. Floppy disks are handled by Floppy.sys. All SCSI-based removable media are handled through the normal SCSI disk device drivers. Most magneto-optical, Bernoulli, Syquest, and similar removable-media disks are treated like hard disks under Windows NT, and do not require special disk device drivers.

You can use My Computer or Windows NT Explorer to remove media while Windows NT is running. When pointing at the device, click the right mouse button. If the media can be ejected, the Eject command is available. If there is no Eject command in the menu, or the command is grayed, you cannot eject the media.

Note

WORM and other types of "Write once" media are not supported in Windows NT.

There are several limitations that are unique to removable media in Windows NT.