re: Question about 'Designate Your Own Drive Letters'
Thursday, February 5, 2004 at 3:21 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by flanman
(1 messages posted)
Just for future reference. This is what worked for me from a similar situation.
I reassigned the offending drive's letter to g: or higher. On restart, windows should
reassign a: to the real floppy drive. If this doesn't work, do it manually.
Then remove both the phantom drive from the disk drive settings and the floppy disk
controller from the settings . On restart, the hardware wizard will reinstall the
floppy disk controller and should find only the real floppy.
On Monday, July 1, 2002 at 11:25 pm, Kathy wrote:
>I have a question about Designate
>Your Own Drive Letters:I hooked up an IOMEGA zip drive to the printer port
>of my Itronix 6250 laptop. I had not yet installed the software for it, but the
machine
>detected it and assigned it to drive A. I then downloaded the software and it was
>assigned to another drive, but drive A still showed up as a "removable disk" on
My
>Computer. Later, when I attached the portable floppy (which is supposed to always
>be on drive A) it was randomly assigned drive D.
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>I eventually removed the IOMEGA thinking once it was gone the floppy might go back
>to drive A. That didn't work, so I looked on the net and found this article. However,
>I have been unable to change the drive for the floppy via Solution #1 or #2 in the
>article. #1 does not allow user to designate A B C or D drives; #2 reverts back
to
>D drive every time I restart. The new string I created (UserDriveLetterAssigment)
>will still say "AA", but CurrentDriveLetterAssignment reverts back to D. The removable
>disk is not listed on System under Control Panel, just on My Computer.
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>Some other things I have tried: 1)when I first went to Regedit.exe, there were 2
>devices under floppy, and one was "NEC Generic" and said drive A. I thought that
>must be what My Computer is seeing as "removable disk" on drive A, and eventually
>I have deleted that altogether. 2) I deleted the config.sys and autoexec.bat files
>in case drivers were being assigned there as stated in the article. Still, somewhere,
>I don't know where, the OS or something is overriding my change to Regedit and still
>assigns drive D to the floppy, as well as My Computer reflecting a non-existent
removable
>disk on drive A.
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>Although I can access the floppy from My Computer, I can't create a boot disk (nor
>access one if I can't start Windows normally, I think) from drive D and would like
>very much to get it back to drive A. I used to use NT and I think there while booting
>up you could go into BIOS and change the boot order, but I can't find that on Windows
>98. (Or am I thinking of an older OS?) I would certainly appreciate any help anyone
>can offer, I am at my wit's end, and have worked on this for several hours. Thank
>you if you read all the way through this, double thanks if you have any suggestions!!
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