floppy icon but no hardware

[Guest]

In "my computer" I noe see an icon for 3.5 inch floppy.However i dont even
have a 3.5 inch floppy.
I recently cleaned some infections with bullgaurd??
Please help

 

[Guest]

When Bill Gates was designing computers about 30 years ago, he
established the following:
A drive = 3.5 inch floppy
B drive = 5.25 inch floppy
C drive = harddrive
D to Z drive = additional partitions, externals and USB drives.
To this date they are still so designated. Even if you don't have
one, it will still be there, just in case you want to add the drive.
Millions still have that drive and still use it.
You can't "clean" it out of there. It is set in the BIOS.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

When Bill Gates was designing computers about 30 years ago,

Bill Gates designed operating systems, not computers. And the first
PCs were in 1981.

he
established the following:

A drive = 3.5 inch floppy
B drive = 5.25 inch floppy

Not true. There was no such thing as a 3.5" floppy on the first PCs.
Both the a: and b: drive letters were reserved forfloppies, and all PC
floppies at that time were 5.25". A typical PC was a two-floppy
machine, both 5.25".

Later, when both 3.5" and 5.25" floppies were around and some people
had both, some had the a: as 3.5 and b: as 5.25, and others had it the
other way around, a: as 5.25 and b: as 3.5. There has never been a
rule or standard that dictated which was which. And some people had
(and still have) two floppies of the same type, either 5.25 or 2.5, on
both a: and b:.

There had also been 8" floppies, but those were never uised on PCs.In
fact the first floppies were 8".

C drive = harddrive

And hard drives didn't exist on the first PCs either.

By the way, although both hard drives and 3.5" flopies were developed
and introduced around 1980/191, they weren't used on PCs until a few
years later.

 

[Bill Sharpe]

Bill Gates designed operating systems, not computers. And the first
PCs were in 1981.






Not true. There was no such thing as a 3.5" floppy on the first PCs.
Both the a: and b: drive letters were reserved forfloppies, and all PC
floppies at that time were 5.25". A typical PC was a two-floppy
machine, both 5.25".

Later, when both 3.5" and 5.25" floppies were around and some people
had both, some had the a: as 3.5 and b: as 5.25, and others had it the
other way around, a: as 5.25 and b: as 3.5. There has never been a
rule or standard that dictated which was which. And some people had
(and still have) two floppies of the same type, either 5.25 or 2.5, on
both a: and b:.

There had also been 8" floppies, but those were never uised on PCs.In
fact the first floppies were 8".







And hard drives didn't exist on the first PCs either.

By the way, although both hard drives and 3.5" flopies were developed
and introduced around 1980/191, they weren't used on PCs until a few
years later.

And my first PC in 1983 had two 5 1/4-inch drives labeled A: and B:
3 1/2-inch drives came later. Yes, the operating system was MS-DOS, but
I don't think Bill himself named the drives.

The original disks that came with the machine were single-sided and held
160 kbytes each. The drives were capable of supporting 360k double-sided
disks.

Bill

Bill

 

[Guest]

i have the same prob as yours KW, it has nothing to do with bullgaurd or any
antivirus / whatsoever. i posted a reply in one of the threads here, below is
exact post:

"Many people using Vista OS are having problems with their floppy drive &
optical disc drives. Before my dvdrw disappeared suddenly, I was able to fix
the prob by deleting the upper & lower filters in the registry of the DVDRW
and reboot the computer.

Now, im surprised that floppy drive dispperead suddenly. Cannot be found in
the my computer area. Im using Vista Ultimate for almost 2 months now. I just
noticed 3 days ago that my floppy drive disppeared all of a sudden. FDD
controller still appears in the device manager and you can still boot up in
the FDD drive so that suggests that floppy drive is indeed ok / working
properly. The only problem is that you cant see it at all, as if it was
disconnected physically or being undetected in someway but its not. Ive been
looking so so so so so so so very very very hard for the solution for this
but I cant find any but more linkls to people having problems like mine... I
hope someone from the developers of Vista could provide solution to these.
Its a big disappointed to all users of Vista who bought original dics to
upgrade from their previous OS only to encounter silly problems like these
that affects their computing experience. Microsoft should tested the Vista OS
thoroughly before releasing it commercially. "

Guys from Microsft, please help us out here. Thanks. please email solution
to (e-mail address removed)