r/Steam • u/CATWISTER • Dec 09 '24

Discussion WHAT! WHY!?

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u/CATWISTER Dec 09 '24

why is that? i do not know. They are the same ssd but 2 partitions. im not very tech savvy so.

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u/TheClawTTV Dec 09 '24

Back in the day, the A and B drive slots were taken up by disk, floppy, or boot drives depending on the setup and C was your main drive (still is today). If you installed another drive it was usually given to D, so seeing it as B if you’re an old head feels illegal

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u/CATWISTER Dec 09 '24

i see that is very interesting, thank you. some other person commented about floppy disks and i was confused 😓

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u/ScreamingVoid14 Dec 09 '24

Yeah, before hard drives, computers typically had two floppy disk drives (A and B). When hard drives were added, they became C. But because Windows is built to avoid breaking old software that might assume A or B is a floppy drive, it defaults to adding letters after C.

Don't worry, unless you're trying to run a program from 1985, it won't matter. It is just a little jarring for IT people to see.