Computers are making lives easier for almost everyone. Almost all the computers run on Microsoft operating systems such as Windows or MS-DOS. Though you are very familiar with the operation of the computer, still they are many things that are ignored and some tech facts are even unknown to you. Of these, why is C the default drive in windows? Why can’t A or B be the Default Drive?
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| Why C Is The Default Drive Letter In Windows? |
Logically A should be the default drive. What about B? Why Window did skip these two alphabets and directly jumped to C without following any order. Why did Windows do this?
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| Why C Is The Default Drive Letter In Windows? |
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| Actually, the reason is something historical. To know this we have to date back to 1980’s when classic floppy drives were famous before the hard disks became standard. |
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| Why C Is The Default Drive Letter In Windows? |
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| Earlier 1950’s due to the expense of Hard Disk Drive most of the computers didn’t usually come with internal mass-storage devices. Instead, they generally had some form of Floppy Disk Reader to read 5 ¼” Floppy Disks and they are labeled as Local Disk (A:) in MS-DOS and other operating systems. Some systems came with two such Floppy Disk Readers to read 3 ½” Floppy Disks and they are labeled as Local Disk (B:). |
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| Why C Is The Default Drive Letter In Windows? |
But in 1980, when Hard Drives became standard in most PCs, they labeled the third Storage Device as Local Disk (C:), because the first two letters were already used for Floppy Drives by default even if you don’t use them. Now this Local Disk (C:) is the main storage medium for the computer, usually containing the operating system. As a result drives, other than default drive (C:), are labelled as D, E etc. DVD drive and USB drives are labeled as F, G and so on.
But in modern systems, these letters are not set in stone and you can easily change, remove or add drive letter if you have administrative rights.
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