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What is the drive letters of the computer?
Drive letters are merely an abstraction provided by the operating system to make it easier to identify specific hard drives. Indeed, the name "drive letter" is a actually a misnomer because it is the partitions upon the hard drive that are identified by those letters, not the hard drive itself. That is, a single hard drive may be divided into one or more partitions, each of which is assigned a drive letter. By default, drives a and b are reserved for floppy disk drives while the primary partition of the first hard drive is assigned drive letter C. Early versions of Windows had to be installed on partition C, however later versions could be installed on any partition. Not all operating systems use drive letters which are predominantly a feature of Windows operating systems and DOS-based systems. Linux and other Unix-based systems use a more precise identifier whereby drives are identified by labels such as hda2, sdb1 or fda0. The first two letters are an acronym that describes the type of drive, such as hd (IDE hard-disk), sd (SATA drive or, generally, a SCSI drive) and fd (floppy drive). Physical drives of the same type are then labelled a, b, c and so on, and the partitions upon those drives are numbered 0, 1, 2 and so on. Thus the label "hda2" refers to the third partition of the first IDE hard-drive.
How do you access the C drive from a Linux terminal?
Linux does not identify drives or partitions with letters. To Windows, "C:" is the partition that the running version of Windows is currently installed on, regardless of how many partitions are on the disk. Linux identifies partitions based on the order they are placed on the disk. For instance, the second partition on the first hard drive would be /dev/sda2 or /dev/hda2. In order to access a Windows partition,you will need to identify what partition it is actually on. A quick way to do this is to run cfdisk /dev/sda or cfdisk with whatever hard drive it is on if you have more than one. A Windows partition will have the type of either NTFS or FAT32. To mount it, create a directory (such as /mnt/windows), and use the command mount /dev/sda3 /mnt/windows substituting of course the correct partition.
