The drives beyond C are
labeled D, E, and so on. Additionally, if you plug in your USB flash drives you
will get F and G drive. So, what about A and B?
In early generations,
computers didn’t have huge internal storage systems. In fact, hard disk drives
became standard since 1980. Before hard disk drives, floppy disk drives were
used as the storage devices
Floppy Drives
Floppy disk drives are the
primary storage devices that came to existence since 1960. At that time, floppy
disk drives came in two sizes 5 1/4″ and 3 1/2″. These two drives were labeled
as Local Disk (A) and Local Disk (B).
As we mentioned earlier, in
1980, hard disk came into existence and it gradually became the primary source
for storage systems in computers and it was labeled with Local Disk (C) because
Local Disk (A) and Local Disk (B) were already assigned to floppy disks.
Now,
Floppy disks are outdated. So, Local Disk (A) and Local Disk (B) are not seen
anymore in Windows operating system. Users can change the labeling order to
start from A or B by going through Disk management option.
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