So you lose any writes that are done by said applications after copying?
Yes.
That's hardly equivalent, or even comparable.
What happens if they write something to the file while it's being copied?
Nothing.
Really? Nothing at all? I would expect, at the very least, that the OS would perform the write on the original copy of the file.
Do you get a consistent copy?
Yes.
How does the OS ensure consistency if an application writes to the file while it is being copied?
The drive is simply the file location in Windows. (e.g. C:\, D:\, E:\ etc.) it doesn't have to refer to a physical drive. A physical hard disk can have multiple partitions, each with their own drive mapping. At this point it just feels like you're being purposefully obtuse which is rather obnoxious. You're the only Linux person I know of that really, truly, doesn't know how Windows works, which leads me to believe you're just being a dolt on purpose.
You brought Windows into this discussion, not me. It is not reasonable to assume that I was using a Windows-specific definition of a word in a thread I made about how great Linux is.