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Before bootable CD drives came along, floppy drives were provided with
letters A and B. Now, either the bootable CD or floppy may take A.
The next sequential letter is C. This is usually the first active, primary
partition found on a hard drive. Its also dependent on the
active/primary/logical partition hierarchy scheme system. Its possible to
boot from floppy or CD, and a logical partition may take drive letter C, if
no primary partitions exist for instance.
Originally, PCs had no hard drives. They ran on big oversize floppies. B
designation came later, and was commonly used as a data diskette. The hard
drive came along, and logically, its partition took the letter C.
A cd drive can take the letter C, if no detectible hard drive partition
exists. Designating a latter letter for the cd drive with driver modifier
is the typical solution used. This is only seen with floppy boot media like
a 98 startup diskette for instance. The former can be seen, under the right
conditions, with a simple boot diskette.
Magneto floppies (if not bootable), pen drives, CD/DVD and so forth follow a
letter hierarchy specific to windows. And in some cases, can be modified by
the user. With the advent of XP, even more latitude is provided for drive
letter changes by the user.
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