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John Ames <commodorejohn@gmail.com> wrote or quoted:
>NT has its own low-level scheme for identifying devices/representing
>file paths.

  We need to break down a few terms when we're chatting about Windows:

  - the physical hard disk,

  - volumes: partitions of that physical disk, and

  - drive letters: labels slapped on a volume (not on a hard disk!).

  (You can totally have volumes without a drive letter.)