root folder equivalent in windows

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Published on 2008-09-30T05:30:25Z Indexed on 2010/03/20 21:11 UTC
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Is C drive treated as the root folder in windows when one says \folder1\folder2\ in linux and windows C:\folder1\folder2.

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