Removing floppy drive from Explorer

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nobody

Is it possible to remove the A: drive from explorer? Normally it's a
nuisance to have it there or accidentally click on it. I would like to
enable it back when and if necessary.
 
As far as I know, you cannot remove it from from explorer, but you can
disable it from Device Manager.
When you then need to use the floppy, you can just enable the drive again.

Michael
 
I haven't done this in a while, but IIRC you could use the HideDrives value
in the Registry to achieve this.
You need to customize (or write another .adm) the template file. Edit the
HideDrives value.

This is how you calculate the HideDrives value:
The registry key that this policy effects uses a decimal number which
corresponds to a 26 bit binary string, with each bit representing a drive
letter:

11111111111111111111111111
ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA

The above configuration corresponds to 67108863 and will hide all drives. If
you only want to hide the drives: A, C, D, E, F, H and T you would do this:

00000010000000000010111101
ZYXWVUTSRQPONMLKJIHGFEDCBA

This would be 524477 in decimal number and hide the drives A, C, D, E, F, H
and T. This is the value that you type in as the NoDrives Value in the
policy template.

IIRC it's the system.adm template, unless you add your own .adm file and
remember that you have to edit the .adm file on multiple places:

POLICY !!NoDrives
POLICY !!NoViewOnDrive
....and don't forget to edit the corresponding value in the [strings]
section.

Regards,

/Jimmy
 
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