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[–] ColdWater@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago (2 children)
[–] Scolding7300@lemmy.world 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Hard drive, e.g. C:, D:, etc. From what I gather from the headline

[–] Trigger2_2000@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Drive Letters are also for removable media (floppy disks, CD/DVD drives, others [magneto-optical drives, etc), not to mention network drives. Not just Fixed Disks (hard drives).

It's just an easy way to specify one disk from another.

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 1 points 16 minutes ago

In inferior operating systems they refer to mountpoints as "drive letters". "C" is like "root"