Floppy disk not appearing in My Computer!!

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Guest

i need to make a floppy disk but for some reason the A drive icon isnt
showing up on "my computer" i went the through the microsoft help and
support and its showing up on device manager and as far as i can tell the
registery is OK.. yet it still isnt showing up!! reeaaaallly annoying!!
Any thoughts?
 
W

Wesley Vogel

The Floppy Disk Drive Is Missing From the My Computer Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812489

Floppy Disk Drive Does Not Appear in the My Computer Folder
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/817196

Do you have TweakUI installed?
If yes, Open TweakUI
[+] My Computer
Drives

Make sure there's a check mark in A: |
Click Apply | Click OK
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Do you have XP Pro?
If yes, open Group Policy...

Start | Run | Type: gpedit.msc | Click OK |
Navigate to >>
User Configuration\Administrative Templates\Windows Components\Windows
Explorer\
Hide these specified drives in My Computer

Set to Not Configured

Hide these specified drives in My Computer
[[Removes the icons representing selected drives from My Computer and
Windows Explorer. Also, the drive letters representing the selected drives
do not appear in the standard Open dialog box.

To use this policy, select a drive or combination of drives from the
drop-down list. To display all drives, disable this policy or select the Do
not restrict drives option from the drop-down list.

Note: This setting removes the drive icons. Users can still gain access to
drive contents by using other methods, such as by typing the path to a
directory on the drive in the Map Network Drive dialog box, in the Run
dialog box, or in a command window.

Also, this setting does not prevent users from using programs to access
these drives or their contents. And, it does not prevent users from using
the Disk Management snap-in to view and change drive characteristics.

Also, see the "Prevent access to drives from My Computer" setting.]]
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Open the Registry Editor...
Start | Run | Type: regedit | Click OK |

Navigate to >>>
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\
Explorer

Is there a Value Name in the right hand pane called NoDrives?

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Hope this helps. Let us know.

Wes
MS-MVP Windows Shell/User

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