Why is it always the C:\ drive, not the A:\ drive?

pitchfork · 6 Sep 2012 at 10:25

I'm just curious why it's always the C:\ drive as standard on windows, I mean surely logic would dictate that the first drive would be at the start of the alphabet A:\?

Subliminal Aura · 6 Sep 2012 at 10:27

Because the A:\ is for the floppy which is inherently far more important than todays SSDs

kayomani · 6 Sep 2012 at 10:30

Back in the day when you didn't have a hard disk you had a a:\ floppy..

Meatball · 6 Sep 2012 at 10:32

What was B:\ drive then? CD-Rom I assume?

Subliminal Aura · 6 Sep 2012 at 10:33

Meatball said:
What was B:\ drive then? CD-Rom I assume?

Nope .... Some of us were rich enough enough to have 2 floppies

div0 · 6 Sep 2012 at 10:33

Remembers the days when you had to boot from a floppy disk.

div0 · 6 Sep 2012 at 10:35

Meatball said:
What was B:\ drive then? CD-Rom I assume?

A CD what?

This was back in the days when floppy disks were actually, well floppy!

sadbuttrue · 6 Sep 2012 at 10:36

Ah the good ole days of "backing up" games from a: to b:

Stelly · 6 Sep 2012 at 10:36

Noob!

Stelly

Hagar · 6 Sep 2012 at 10:41

div0 said:
A CD what?

This was back in the days when floppy disks were actually, well floppy!

And a 360kB floppy took an entire 5.25" bay. Hard (winchester) disks were up to 14" (350mm) and had their own cabinet.

MooMoo444 · 6 Sep 2012 at 10:43

Ahh the days when entire games came on a 1mb floppy

Takes me back

james_2k · 6 Sep 2012 at 10:50

cant beat a 3.5" floppy

tom_e · 6 Sep 2012 at 10:57

Kids these days! Even I remember spending a good chunk of my early pc days playing with floppy disks and I'm only 24

ubersonic · 6 Sep 2012 at 11:01

My A: was only 740K (Double Density), when High Density launched with its 1.44MB monsters I grabbed one for a B:

pitchfork · 6 Sep 2012 at 11:03

I've drank a lot of whisky since the floppy days, I don't remember it being under A:\ but there you go. Cheers for the answer

Our first pc had a CD Rom drive and a floppy, but my parents were too tight to buy games or software so it was internet games for me. Internet for 20 minutes a day because it was pay per minute then too

sadbuttrue · 6 Sep 2012 at 11:10

Those of us with little money used the hole punch method to turn double density floppies into high density. An overclocked floppy as it were

Infidelus · 6 Sep 2012 at 12:39

james_2k said:
cant beat a 3.5" floppy

Course you can, just don't do it in public

james_2k · 6 Sep 2012 at 12:40

like playing snooker with a rope

Orcvader · 6 Sep 2012 at 12:40

My first PC from emachines was bundled with a lot of floppy drives...

Mark M · 6 Sep 2012 at 12:55

Stelly said:
Noob!