Put Drive A on Desktop

N

Norm

When I do this and try to open the drive to use a floppy
it gives the flash
light pix and tells me it cannot find the drive, Anyone
know why?
Thanks.
 
R

Russ

-----Original Message-----
When I do this and try to open the drive to use a floppy
it gives the flash
light pix and tells me it cannot find the drive, Anyone
know why?
Thanks.
.
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Answer?: Don't put drive A:/ on desktop.
Wish all were this simple.
 
P

Patrick

Norm said:
When I do this and try to open the drive to use a floppy
it gives the flash
light pix and tells me it cannot find the drive, Anyone
know why?
Thanks.
Click to expand...

Right-click the shortcut, click 'Properties', select 'Shortcut' tab.
In the 'Target' field it should simply say: A:\

At a guess you may find it to be pointing to a *file* on a floppy.
 
S

Sharon F

When I do this and try to open the drive to use a floppy
it gives the flash
light pix and tells me it cannot find the drive, Anyone
know why?
Thanks.
Click to expand...

Find another way to handle this for a while. A recent Windows update has
broken shortcuts pointing to drives. MS is aware of the problem and a fix
should come along eventually but until it does you'll need to access the
drive differently.

May want to try an Explorer shortcut with the focus on the A drive. Create
a shortcut to explorer.exe and change the target line in the shortcut's
properties to read: %SystemRoot%\explorer.exe /e,a:
 
R

Ramesh

Hi Norm,

Open Control Panel > Add/Remove programs and uninstall the Microsoft
WindowsUpdate hotfix "821557"

Also see:
Desktop Shortcut to the 3 1/2 Inch Disk Drive or to the CD-ROM Drive Does
Not Work
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;824143

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When I do this and try to open the drive to use a floppy
it gives the flash
light pix and tells me it cannot find the drive, Anyone
know why?
Thanks.
 

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