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The first two floppy drives, if present, are A: and B:.
Then, the first active partition on the first hard drive is C:
If there is a second physical hard drive, it would be D:
... additional partitions on the hard drives, if active, would get letters after that.
The optical drive is normally lettered after the last hard drive partition.
So, if you have a computer with 1 floppy, one hard drive with a single partition, and a CD Rom drive, the floppy would be A:, the hard drive would be C:, and the CDRom would be D:
In more recent operating systems, however, you can re-arrange drive letters using the storage management tool; but the above is the "normal" arrangement.
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