Drives usually have a letter to represent them in the operating system.
In DOS and Windows PC’s the floppy drives have the letter A, or if there are two, the letters A and B
Hard Drives, CD ROMS Drives and other devices start with the letter C and go up: C, D, E, etc.
Each different drive has its own letter. The main or boot Hard Drive usually has the letter C
However one physical device or drive may be separated into several logical devices each of which can have a letter
For example one physical drive can be partitioned into several logical drives.