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on the Windows platform only, it is easier to refer to a storage partition as a letter than /dev/sda1/.

linux and possibly Apple(c) computers use /dev/sda1/ because it is the raw code, C:\ is converted.

This is all I know. Microsoft(c) windows operating systems are written totally different.

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