Why is “C” the Default Drive on Your Computer (Instead of A or B)?

Have you ever wondered why the names of hard drives start from “C”? Where have the A and B drives gone?

Here's the answer:

• Hard disk drives have been standard since 1980
• Before hard disk drives, Floppy disk drives were used as data storage devices
• Floppy disks came into existence in the 1960’s
• Floppy disks came in two sizes 5 1/4 ” and 3 1/2″
• Those two floppy disk drives were labelled as Local Disk "A" and Local Disk "B"
• Hard disk drives augmented and then replaced the floppy disks, hence the letter "C" was used

By the way, after the invention of the Hard disk, a Floppy disk of size 8 inch came into existence