Klaatu mentioned he wasn&rsquo;t sure what the &lsquo;f&rsquo; in &lsquo;fdisk&rsquo; stood for. I had always been positive it stood for &ldquo;format&rdquo; because DOS had an fdisk command and that was pretty much its main use. However, I looked it up just now and turns out I was wrong, it stands for Fixed, as in Fixed Disk Setup Program.

He also seemed unsure of the reason why the main hard disk is usually C in Windows machines. PCs would originally boot off the floppy drive, which was always A, and for convenience, a second floppy drive was often added and it was always B. So the hard drives started with C. I don't think there's any technical reason A and B haven&rsquo;t been reclaimed, but when I read `A:` or `B:` in a path, I still think &ldquo;floppy disk&rdquo;. At any rate, the whole scheme is sad and dumb!