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Why start at C drive in modern computing?

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Mar 15, 202612799 views
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Possible Duplicate: What happened to the B: drive in Windows and why does the hard drive default to C? Can I install Windows 7 in A:\ or B:\ partition names? This question is similar to this one: What happened to the B: drive in Windows and why does the hard drive default to C? but a bit different.…

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As you've seen in the other question, lots of computers in the early days had two floppy drives, so they were A: and B:. It became an industry standard, and there's no real reason to change it. Everyone is used to the C: drive being the main drive, …

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