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What happened to the B: drive in Windows and why does the hard drive default to C?

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Mar 15, 202623296 views
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Why is it that I see an drive and a drive but not a drive? Is there a reason why the disk partitions start at C? And is it possible to change that letter designation?

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Fix for: What happened to the B: drive in Windows and why does the hard drive default to C?

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Because back in the day of floppy disks, there were either two physical floppy drives (A: and B:), or just one physical floppy drive (A:) with one emulated (B:) so you could copy from disk to disk by exchanging disks every few hundred KB.

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