Drive letter

Hi
Does anyone know how to change the drive letter for a floppy drive. I have 1
external usb floppy and no internal floppy and i want to change the usb to
A: From B: and i am stuck as disk management doesn't show floppy drives. I
disabled the floppy disk controller and it made the A: it thinks is there
disappear from my computer but i still can change the drive letter.
Thanks
Dan

Lanwench
Mon Aug 16 09:32:17 CDT 2004

I think A: is reserved in the BIOS - not sure that you can change it. What's
the reason you want the USB floppy drive to appear as A, not B?

Dan wrote:
> Hi
> Does anyone know how to change the drive letter for a floppy drive. I
> have 1 external usb floppy and no internal floppy and i want to
> change the usb to A: From B: and i am stuck as disk management
> doesn't show floppy drives. I disabled the floppy disk controller and
> it made the A: it thinks is there disappear from my computer but i
> still can change the drive letter. Thanks
> Dan

Dan
Tue Aug 17 01:50:14 CDT 2004

The reason i want to make b to a is i don't have any internal floppy drives
installed as they are crap and primative so i only use the usb one when i
need it also i tried to make a remote boot generator floppy in 2003 for RIS
and the option doesn't give me a: and b: drive unlike 2000 which has a: and
b:. It says it can't find any floppy disk in the a: drive. The stupid pc has
added a virtual floppy mapping to a: and i want the physical floppy mapped
as a:.

"Dan" <dan772@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:O6Taah0gEHA.2856@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
> Hi
> Does anyone know how to change the drive letter for a floppy drive. I have
1
> external usb floppy and no internal floppy and i want to change the usb to
> A: From B: and i am stuck as disk management doesn't show floppy drives. I
> disabled the floppy disk controller and it made the A: it thinks is there
> disappear from my computer but i still can change the drive letter.
> Thanks
> Dan
>
>

Steve
Wed Aug 18 10:22:58 CDT 2004

Dan wrote:

> The reason i want to make b to a is i don't have any internal floppy
> drives installed as they are crap and primative so i only use the usb
> one when i need it also i tried to make a remote boot generator
> floppy in 2003 for RIS and the option doesn't give me a: and b:
> drive unlike 2000 which has a: and b:. It says it can't find any
> floppy disk in the a: drive. The stupid pc has added a virtual floppy
> mapping to a: and i want the physical floppy mapped as a:.

You need BIOS support for USB FDD and for booting from them, and that's
a fairly recent improvement.

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