USB floppy not coming up as A:\ drive?? how do I make it?

[niteowl]

Hi,

I have a windows XP Pro O/S, 1GB RAM, my computer has only a USB floppy
drive, which is coming up as the "B" drive... a lot of programs are looking
for an "A" drive..

I had an "A" drive showing, but none installed, so went into the cmos and
set the A floppy as not installed, hoping the USB would take that drive
letter, but it's still showing as "B"

Went into the Administrative Tools thinking I could simply reassign the
drive letter, but it doesn't show up in there... so..... how do I get this
system to see the USB floppy as the "A" drive?

thanks for any help,
niteowl

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Hi,

I have a windows XP Pro O/S, 1GB RAM, my computer has only a USB floppy
drive, which is coming up as the "B" drive... a lot of programs are
looking for an "A" drive..

I had an "A" drive showing, but none installed, so went into the cmos and
set the A floppy as not installed, hoping the USB would take that drive
letter, but it's still showing as "B"

Went into the Administrative Tools thinking I could simply reassign the
drive letter, but it doesn't show up in there... so..... how do I get
this system to see the USB floppy as the "A" drive?

thanks for any help,
niteowl

I don't believe you can do this at all, but it'd probably be up to your
hardware manufacturer's BIOS settings, I think. What programs do you have
that are looking for a floppy on A ?

 

[Andy]

Run regedit, and look under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices.
Delete \DosDevices\A: and \DosDevices\B:, and reboot.

 

[Uwe Sieber]

I have a windows XP Pro O/S, 1GB RAM, my computer has only a USB floppy
drive, which is coming up as the "B" drive... a lot of programs are looking
for an "A" drive..

I had an "A" drive showing, but none installed, so went into the cmos and
set the A floppy as not installed, hoping the USB would take that drive
letter, but it's still showing as "B"

Went into the Administrative Tools thinking I could simply reassign the
drive letter, but it doesn't show up in there... so..... how do I get this
system to see the USB floppy as the "A" drive?

http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/remount.zip

remount b: a:


Greetings from Germany

Uwe

 

[niteowl]

elegantly simple, THANKS!!!

worked great.

niteowl

 

[Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]]

Run regedit, and look under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices.
Delete \DosDevices\A: and \DosDevices\B:, and reboot.

Very cool....didn't know you could do that. Thanks