means by defaul in any computer the default drive is named C.
2006-09-19 01:01:47 · 8 answers · asked by manoj 2 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
Custom. A & B used to be for floppy drives, then desktops began to be configured with hard drives, so C the next letter, was chosen.
2006-09-19 01:02:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, early computers had two floppy drives and they were called A and B... Even those with only one would still call the one floppy both A and B... Made copying disks a tedius chore of switching floppies back and forth as it copied a few bytes at a time...
Then those early hard drives with 10 meg were called drive C... Since the operating system was often loaded to the hard drive the system would look to drive A first for a system disk, and if it didn't find one it would go to the C drive to launch DOS (Windows came later)...
2006-09-19 01:12:46 · answer #2 · answered by Andy FF1,2,CrTr,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
c:\ is the computer drive removable devices (jump drives usb printers etc.) are usually removable disk E disc drives (disc drawers) are usually drive c or d
(not quite sure about imacs though)
2006-09-19 01:05:34 · answer #3 · answered by isaac_moore91 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
2006-09-19 01:02:44 · answer #4 · answered by timc_fla 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In a Windows computer, yes.
On my Linux box, my root directory is called simply /
Rawlyn.
2006-09-19 01:08:24 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes, ex: D Drive D:\ and is like that.
2006-09-19 02:21:23 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
2006-09-19 01:03:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A:\ disk
B:\ disk
C:\ hard drive
D:\ CD
E:\ 2nd hard drive
F:\ 2nd CD
2006-09-19 01:10:52 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋