Why is the first drive in Windows always C?

Why is the first hard drive or the first partition in Windows always referred to with the letter ‘C’?

We have packaged the answer for you in a short video.

Here is another question that our editor Benedikt Schlotmann has dealt with: Why is a mouse for the PC actually called a mouse?

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