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Why Computer Drive name starts with C ? What about A and B
Have you ever wondered why there is no A and B drive in your computer 
Why is the default drive in MS-Windows computers the C drive? 
The drives beyond that one are labelled D, E, and so on. If you plug in USB drives, they get F and G. So yeah, what about A and B?

Then Read this :) 
![c2.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmf7x79FL7M2JUxT9F1uDsPjn3eu74o2XcFmTDwhp2BCbP/c2.png)

Earlier, computers didn’t have much storage space. People used to use floppies to store information. Therefore, floppy disks were labeled A. As floppies used to come in two different sizes, 3 ½” and 5 ½, therefore names, A and B were given to them

![c1.png](https://cdn.steemitimages.com/DQmetfsjqLUkTcMdQhMnLaFryXmU2662mQRDyWjf44erKPJ/c1.png)


It was only in the late 1980s that hard drives became a standard. And so they were logically labelled C. And these hard drives were used to store the operating systems of the computers. Gradually, floppy disks became obsolete and computers started doing away with floppy drives. The A and B drives were phased out and C remained. 

If in case you want to,  you can change the order of the labels and rename your drives as A and B  if you have the administrative rights of the computer,

Hope you learnt something from this!!! Please follow me ,resteem and upvote !!! 
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@arjun01 ·
ok sure, ,thanku you so much for the valuable info
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@arjun01 ·
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@macoolette · (edited)
My generation caught the drives A and B and yes, I got the chance to use floppy disks of both sizes.  

Nice throwback there. However, it would be better if you use the correct tagging next time. I do not see any #introduceyourself part on your post.
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@arjun01 ·
Even i have used floppy drives when i was a kid, I have already introduced myself in one of my previous post, Did tagging as i am still new on this platform :)
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@macoolette · (edited)
You may still be new so use the tag in the real sense of it. Otherwise, that is spamming.
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@arjun01 ·
Sure Thanks !!!
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@oraclefrequency ·
Very interesting. I should have know they were for floppy's.

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@arjun01 ·
Ya.. thankyou :)
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@rosy1606 ·
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@arjun01 ·
ya thankyou :)
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