Why does the name of a drive in a computer start with ( C Drive) ?

You must have used a computer or laptop; you must have seen C Drive in the computer; the drive-in all computers always starts with C; no matter if you install Windows on a new hard disk, it also has a C drive. This question must have arisen in your mind that why its name does not start with A or B. Why does the name of the drive in computer start with C (C Drive)? We are telling you about this in detail on this page.

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C drive  being default in computer

1. In old times, no type of storage device was used in the computer, that is, no type of data could be saved in the computer of that time, if you had to run the computer at that time, you had to use a floppy disk. Disk (Floppy Disk) had to be used, without floppy disk the computer could not run, hence at that time the first storage device of the computer was floppy disk, which was named A.

2.After this, there was development in technology and a new floppy disk was created, which was named B drive. To run these two floppy disks, two different drives were made, they were named A and B. |

3. Not much data could be kept in the floppy and whatever was kept was not secure, hence there was a high possibility of the data being deleted or damaged.

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4. After the year 1980, hard drives started becoming more famous due to their data being safe, more data could be stored in it, after this external drives and pendrives etc. started becoming available in the market.

5. A and B drives were already reserved for floppy disks in the system, so C was determined for the hard drive or hard disk, for this reason whatever windows are installed in the computer. It is always installed in C drive only, hence at present the name of the first drive of the computer is C only.

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