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Reassigning drive letters

Reassigning drive letters

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Reassigning drive letters

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- [Presenter] Windows drive letters may not make sense to you but there's a method behind the madness. The original PCs mass storage device was a floppy drive available on the IBM PC introduced in 1981. This drive was given the letter A. For more storage, you could obtain a second floppy drive given drive letter B but in 1983, the IBM PC XT came along and introduced a hard drive with a whopping 10 megabyte capacity. This drive, the next one available was given letter C. As the computer's primary hard drive all PC compatibles since have had drive C as their first hard drive letter. Subsequent storage devices are assigned letters in sequence as they're discovered by the system at boot time or as they're added, these include any additional internal drives such as an optical drive followed my external drives. Any drives or media added after boot time are assigned to the next sequential drive letter. This approach is…

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