Floppy drive letter assignment

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I've just removed the LS-120 drive from my system & put in a regular floppy. I've connected the cable right (after the twist) & activated the "Floppy Drive A" in BIOS

For some reason, my system assigns drive letter "B" upon booting into windows. Disk Management will only see HDDs & optical drives, so I can't use it to change the letter to '"A"

I've tried everything I can think of, including reloading setup defaults. I even checked the BIOS settings in my sister's computer which has the letter correctly allocated, & all the usual settings match mine. WTF?
 
The 'A' should be plugged into the end of the cable, the
connector in the middle is for the 'B' drive.
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I've just removed the LS-120 drive from my system & put
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in a regular floppy. I've connected the cable right
(after the twist) & activated the "Floppy Drive A" in
BIOS.
For some reason, my system assigns drive letter "B" upon
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booting into windows. Disk Management will only see HDDs
& optical drives, so I can't use it to change the letter
to '"A".
I've tried everything I can think of, including
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reloading setup defaults. I even checked the BIOS
settings in my sister's computer which has the letter
correctly allocated, & all the usual settings match mine.
WTF??
 
Hi

Are you sure you have correctly connected the ribbon cable to the floppy drive port on the mobo

Pete


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I've just removed the LS-120 drive from my system & put in a regular floppy. I've connected the cable right (after the twist) & activated the "Floppy Drive A" in BIOS

For some reason, my system assigns drive letter "B" upon booting into windows. Disk Management will only see HDDs & optical drives, so I can't use it to change the letter to '"A"

I've tried everything I can think of, including reloading setup defaults. I even checked the BIOS settings in my sister's computer which has the letter correctly allocated, & all the usual settings match mine. WTF?
 
I've just removed the LS-120 drive from my system & put in a regular floppy. I've connected the cable right (after the twist) & activated the "Floppy Drive A" in BIOS.

For some reason, my system assigns drive letter "B" upon booting into windows. Disk Management will only see HDDs & optical drives, so I can't use it to change the letter to '"A".

I've tried everything I can think of, including reloading setup defaults. I even checked the BIOS settings in my sister's computer which has the letter correctly allocated, & all the usual settings match mine. WTF??
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I had a similar problem. You will probably have to edit the registry
and change the letter designation there.

Go to HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices, look for a value named
DosDevices\B: and see if changing the B to A works. Backup up the
registry first.

Norm
 
Thanx for that, Norm, that did the trick. I had an inkling I might have to do something in the registry, but I didn't want to unless there was no other way. But it is now showing up correctly as "A:"

Under the key of "A" in the registry still showed details of my LS-120 in the value data, even though it was disconnected. What had happened was that I cleaned out my system (by disconnecting EVERYTHING) & rebooted only to have a loud crack noise occur. I traced it to the LS-120 & replaced it with a floppy before rebooting

It would seem that perhaps Windows likes devices to be disconnected in the device manager before physically disconnecting them, not that I had any choice in this instance!!
 
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