Where are 'A' and 'B' drives ? Why 'C' is the default drive ?
A question that has bothered almost everyone of us at some time.
In our computers "C" is the default drive and where are "A" and "B".
why did Windows do this?
Actually the reason is something historical. And it is related to the classic floppy drives . Before hard disks became standard(1980), floppy disks were used for booting the computers. These were available in two sizes at that time: 5 1/4 ” and 3 1/2″.
Those two floppy disk drives were labelled as Local Disk (A) and Local Disk (B). After the invention of Hard disk, floppy disk of size 8 inch came into existence.
The hard disk drive was named C. Once hard disks became standard and floppy disks became obsolete, the drive names A and B vanished.
In our computers "C" is the default drive and where are "A" and "B".
why did Windows do this?
Actually the reason is something historical. And it is related to the classic floppy drives . Before hard disks became standard(1980), floppy disks were used for booting the computers. These were available in two sizes at that time: 5 1/4 ” and 3 1/2″.
Those two floppy disk drives were labelled as Local Disk (A) and Local Disk (B). After the invention of Hard disk, floppy disk of size 8 inch came into existence.
The hard disk drive was named C. Once hard disks became standard and floppy disks became obsolete, the drive names A and B vanished.
As a result , drives other than default drive (C) labelled as D, E etc. DVD drive and USB drive are labelled as F, G and so on.
This is the answer of our question.
Despite of all this, you can rename your default it to whatever letter you want( if no other drive is present with same alphabet as its name) if you have administrative rights.
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