seems to me it should be A drive?.... PS: yeah, I got bored and posted it!... love y'all Hey!...why come Bill Gates always want to be on C drive?... think about it folks!... PS:...please have a comedian outlook before you comment! Love y'all
Wasn't the A and B the boot and the system drive? And C: is where all changed, as in having both installed on a fixed disk? No more cmd involved in booting the computer.
First there were computers without hard disks - just with floppy drives (with one and with two). So the first two letters were kinda reserved for floppy drives. https://www.howtogeek.com/122891/what-are-the-windows-a-and-b-drives-used-for/
Floppy came before any sort of hard drive. Interesting thread btw, come to think of it, seeing as nobody uses floppy disk drives, surely the boot drive should be A:
Aside from A, B for floppies and C for OS, programs are meant to default to C. And you cant change C to something else. C:\Windows will always be as is.
Yes, that's the thing I remember and wanted to write, somehow my wording was a bit vague. I remember those floppies... Good times
I actually remember using 5 1/4" floppies to play the og Sir Tec Wizardry on an old apple...which is still in my garage I think ...
amstrad 6128 with aux tape deck, screwdriver used on it a lot. not floppy d but hard disk, cool disks tho.
I get that, of course. But it got me thinking because it's such a throwback and it stems from decades ago, it's surprising that it hasn't changed over the years.
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Because back during the days of the 8086, most IBM PC's came with a "dual" floppy drive (well I know Apple 2's came with them!), and they were accessed with A: and B: through MS-DOS, with C: being the hard disk. This persisted through Windows 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 / 3.11 and so on. When Windows 95 hit, floppy drives were still in use, so naturally C: was still the main hard drive. There were ways, way back then, to change the label of a CDROM drive or a folder on your hard drive to turn it into a floppy drive, or perhaps it was to turn a folder or floppy drive into a fake CDROM drive. (I think that was FakeCD or something), which I think was for installing programs that expected a different media than what the install files were in. As to why the drive labels haven't changed? Probably this is necessary to maintain compatibility with some old programs and old code.
