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Your hard drive is usually "C". Do you know what "A" and "B" drives are?
I'll tell before I close the question. It's kind of interesting, if you're a bit of a geek.
The answer goes back to the glory days of floppy discs and DOS. The early DOS operating system designated two drives, A and B, strictly for floppy drives. Why? Because many early computers didn't have native hard drives -- they booted from Drive A, and ran applications from Drive B.
Later, as computers came with hard drives, the second floppy drive became a useless appendage -- the computer equivalent of an appendix. To avoid confusion during the evolutionary window when computers with new hard drives coexisted beside computers with two floppies, the hard drives were given the "C" slot.
Technically speaking, the "computer" isn't missing the B drive, it's just that later Microsoft operating systems have omitted it as unnecessary. Now you can't find computers that even have A drives.
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- 9 years agoFavorite Answer
Thanks. I feel old now.
*edit*
You forgot to mention that the floppy disks were 5" and actually floppy.
Yeah.... thanks again. :(
- Anonymous9 years ago
The A drive is a pleasant scenic drive up the coast of California, in a convertible with the sun on your face and the wind in your hair. The B drive is a long trip across the desert with no air conditioning, sitting on the backseat hump between two sweaty guys named, "Lou & Carl" and the radio is broken.