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Windows lives on the C: drive, and the reason it's not called A: or B: goes back to the 1970s

If you've used a Windows PC, you might have noticed that the main system drive is labeled "C:" by default and caught yourself wondering what happened to "A:" or "B:". After all, the alphabet doesn't ...
PC World

Why is the first Windows drive always called C:? Here’s the answer

The alphabet begins with the letter A, but the first drive on a reasonably up-to-date Windows computer is labeled “C:”. Why is that? First of all, the naming of the first Windows drive is not because ...
Yahoo News UK

Why Is the First Drive on a Computer Called C and Not A?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Why does the hard drive on a Windows system use the drive letter C instead of A or 1? Photo: Getty Images We often don’t think ...
Ars Technica

Changing Drive Letters in Win7 so Carbonite can backup?

I'm in a weird situation.... I use the service Carbonite for backup on my Win7 PC, over the past year and a half I've backed up all my photos and music, totalling around 270 GB. It took a while, ...