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Some operating systems identify each drive by a name.
A.Yes
B. No

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Final answer:

yes, Operating systems do indeed assign names or identifiers to drives, such as drive letters in Windows or file paths in Linux, allowing them to be uniquely recognized and accessed by the system and the user.

Step-by-step explanation:

The question relates to how operating systems identify drives. The correct answer is A. Yes. Operating systems, such as Windows, macOS, and Linux, assign each drive a unique identifier. In Windows, drives are typically named with letters starting from C: (as A: and B: were historically reserved for floppy drives), whereas macOS uses a more descriptive volume name, and Linux identifies devices with a file path like /dev/sda for the first hard drive.

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