You must have seen that the hard disk is named ‘C:’ when you try to enter the hard disk to take action on your computer’s operating system or local files.
So why first two letters of the alphabet A and B The hard drive is named ‘C:’ when starting with or when there are many letters in the alphabet other than C? Moreover, this naming is almost standardized for all computers using the Windows operating system or running MS-DOS.
Let’s explore the hard drive a bit together and then ‘C:’ Let’s take a journey into how it’s spelled.
Let’s first understand what the ‘C:’ drive basically does.
The C: drive is the computer on which the computer is run and contains the Windows operating system. main drive of the computer It is the driver that takes on the task, acting as the brain. When people talk about the computer’s hard drive and local disk assignment, they are actually talking about the C: drive. This case of being called ‘C:’ drive, with windows operating system It has been the same since the first days of computers.
So why is the hard drive called C: when there are many letters?
Lettering schemes of disk drives to the early days of MS-DOS stretches up. The letters A and B were actively used at that time. for floppy drives while reserved, the letter C is reserved for the operating system and the main hard disk partition that contains the operating system-related files. Early versions of MS-DOS assigned each floppy drive a fixed letter without taking into account hard drives. If a computer had more than two floppy drives, the hard disk drive was called ‘D:’ or ‘E:’.
The letter ‘C:’ with DOS 5.0 to physical hard disk has been defined. Since DOS 5.0, no matter how large the number of floppy drives in the computer, the hard disk would no longer be referred to by any letter other than ‘C:’. With this lettering, the ‘C:’ drive, which took on the task of opening the operating system, was also given boot priority on the computer.
Other letters were also assigned to other drives.
Floppy disks used in the past are now rarely used. Although the letters ‘A:’ and ‘B:’ are reserved for floppy disks, floppy disks are not used today. ‘A:’ and ‘B:’ until the floppy is inserted We can say that it is waiting vacantly. Other letters such as ‘D:’, ‘E:’ and ‘F:’ such as other hard drive, flash drives, CD and DVD to be assigned to drivers waiting. In short, the case of lettering was based on identifying memory drives, and over time it began to be used to identify physical storage devices.
Have you seen computers using floppy disks? What do you think about naming the hard drive as C:?
Sources: Lifewire, Computer Hope, Technopedia