C: Drive

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Dr Jekyll

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23,820 posts

263 months

Friday 8th February 2008
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Why is it traditional for the hard disk on a PC to be the C drive? Is it that in ancient times you only progressed to a hard disk once you had outgrown twin floppy drives (A & B)?

JustinP1

13,330 posts

232 months

Friday 8th February 2008
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Yes, thats right. Old school PCs used to have a single 5 1/4 inch drive. Posh ones after that had a 3.5 inch drive too, and if you were really posh you had a hard drive, which was named drive C. Thats also why CD Rom drives used to end up being D.