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One might wonder why the first two letters are for floppy and not HDD. If you follow the drive letters, going from A to higher alphabets generally give you evo
by bhavin 16y ago
One might wonder why the first two letters are for floppy and not HDD. If you follow the drive letters, going from A to higher alphabets generally give you evolution of technology (ignoring network map Z:).
A: - floppy
C:/D: - HDD
E: - CD/DVD
F: - External Storage
- pwg 16y agoBecause MsDos, at least in its early versions, could not dynamically assign new drive letters to newly inserted disks. So the workaround, which is still with us years later in Windows 7, was to reserve at boot time the first two letters (A/B) for drives with removable media (i.e., floppy drives, there were no usb flash dongles in those days).
- Qz 16y agoI don't think that's true for Vista or Windows 7. I have B:\ as a Backup partition from my second HD on both.
- ramchip 16y agoDoes your computer have a floppy drive?
- dfox 16y agoAnd this was perfected in Windows 95 which always had drive A:\ visible in My Computer even on computers without actual floppy drive (in that case it was named "Removable drive", had generic removable drive icon and did nothing useful).
- stuhacking 16y agoPerhaps it's because the first IBM PC did not have an internal hard disk as standard?