In some ways, they are kind-of the same. But there are significant differences. Consider that data organization on a computer has been fashioned after what you might find in an office:
An office may have a bunch of related papers. In a computer file system, those papers would be individually identified as files.
The papers are stored in a folder. On a computer, files are stored in a folder, or, directory.
The office folder is stored, along with other related folders, in a drawer of a filing cabinet. In a computer, a drive is analogous to the drawer of the office filing cabinet. The drive, usually identified by a unique letter of the English alphabet, is a volume, or partition. Files and folders in the "folder" of the drive itself are said to be in the root folder.
The office filing cabinet may have multiple drawers. Together, the drawers form a filing cabinet. In a computer, a drive may be one of several volumes (partitions) available on a physical disk. So, the disk itself may be thought of as the filing cabinet.
A drive and a folder on a computer have these things in common:
A drive and a computer folder have these differences:
Disc refers to OPTICAL media such as DVD's CD's Laser Discs etc.
Disk refers to MAGNETIC media such as Floppy Disk, Hard Disk etc.
In the UK & Australia a flat rounded object is usually spelt as Disc and in the USA its usually spelt as Disk.
A floppy disk is a magnetic disk used to store computer data. A floppy drive is the drive that the disk is inserted into to read and write data on the floppy disk.
Asuming what you mean by drive is disk drive :
Drive is where you put disk into...
The difference between a drive and disk is that a drive is used to read a disk whether it be a floppy disk or a compact disk.
HDD stands for Hard Disk Drive... FDD stands for Floppy Disk Drive...
To read a floppy disk, you insert a floppy disk into a floppy disk drive. Not all computers have floppy disk drives. Typically desktop computers or ones that stand on the floor have floppy disk drives. New machines today allow a USB thumb drive (USB flash memory storage device) to be used in place of a floppy drive. All modern computersy have USB connections. If you need to read a floppy disk and you computer does not have a floppy disk drive, you can purchase a USB connected floppy disk drive for your computer.
Correction: the "A" Drive is a floppy disk dirve that holds, reads and writes on the floppy disk.
A computer floppy drive is the device that reads and writes to a floppy disk. It is located on the front of the Computer.
A floppy disk DRIVE can read, erase and save information on a floppy disk. The disk can't do it by himself.
floppy drive
buy a floppy disk drive idiot.
Hard drive, Disk drive and FLoppy disk drive
dick lick the disk till it splashes
By buying a floppy drive. You can buy an external USB floppy drive for under $50.
By default, the IRQ for the floppy disk controller is IRQ 6.