Combo Floppy - No B Drive!

[Richard Webb]

Hi
I have a Combo Floppy for 1.44 Mb Floppies & also 5 1/2 " 360/1.2 Mb Discs.

It is normally read in Windows Explorer as Drives A & B, has worked for
years with Win 98 & XP.

I no longer see the 'B' drive!

Is this a Windows Update?

Any ideas anyone?

Many thanks

Richard

 

[Gordon]

Hi
I have a Combo Floppy for 1.44 Mb Floppies & also 5 1/2 " 360/1.2 Mb
Discs.

Wow! I haven't even SEEN a 5 1/2 " floppy disk for over 12 years! Do you
still REALLY use them?

 

[philo]

Hi
I have a Combo Floppy for 1.44 Mb Floppies & also 5 1/2 " 360/1.2 Mb Discs.

It is normally read in Windows Explorer as Drives A & B, has worked for
years with Win 98 & XP.

I no longer see the 'B' drive!

I use a combo drive like your's on my XP machine with all the updates
and it works fine...
so either your drive died...or maybe it got turned off in the bios for some
reason...
have a look there first

 

[Wesley Vogel]

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Wes
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[Richard Webb]

Hi Philo

Thanks for your reply, I have looked in the BIOS & see no mention of it,
only of Legacy Diskette A:.

I did replace the motherboard & am wondering if the new BIOS doesn't
recognise it!!

ASUS M2V - TVM /MS8177C Matsonic

Will have a look on the ASUS site for any upgrades.

All The best

Richard

P.S. For others looking in, some of us have been around for a while & have
large stocks of 5 1/2" floppies with old records on! It can be handy to be
able to read them! It seems only yesterday that I retired the faithful IBM
XT that used them!

 

[Richard Webb]

Hi Philo

Thanks for your reply, I have looked in the BIOS & see no mention of it,
only of Legacy Diskette A:.

I did replace the motherboard & am wondering if the new BIOS doesn't
recognise it!!

ASUS M2V - TVM /MS8177C Matsonic

Will have a look on the ASUS site for any upgrades.

All The best

Richard

P.S. For others looking in, some of us have been around for a while & have
large stocks of 5 1/2" floppies with old records on! It can be handy to be
able to read them! It seems only yesterday that I retired the faithful IBM
XT that used them! (even if it is 12 years ago!)