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Drive letter B:

LWM723
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This could help you understand, but i think there is a letter B tbh last time I checked

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3 minutes ago, LWM723 said:

Why is there no drive letter B:

In the past A and B were typically floppy drives and C was the OS drive. Later on, D was usually the CD-ROM drive. Doesn't really matter, its just kind of convention.

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A and B reserved for Floppy drives.

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You can name drives any letters you want (I think at least)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_letter_assignment#Order_of_assignment

A and B are for your floppy drives, C is for your boot drive. That is just sort of the "rule" in Windows and because backwards compatibility that ha just never changed.

 

The same sort of compatibility makes it so you can't make a file (or folder) with the name "CON". Or AUX, etc. They are system reserved, for backwards compatibility reasons.

 

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8 minutes ago, LWM723 said:

Why is there no drive letter B:

There is.

The reason "C:" is the default boot drive is because A: and B: were your floppy drives.

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I remember having a 3.5" floppy as A: and a 5 1/4 floppy as B: and not having a C or D drive.  The 80's were AMAZING.

 

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