re: Please help delete Floppy Drive! Sunday, May 24, 2009 at 9:56 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ed (659 messages posted) 1. In Windows 98, open notepad and edit the file C:\CONFIG.SYS by adding the following lines - rem ASPI Manager for USB mass-storage v2.24 rem Panasonic Communications Co 2000-2007 devicehigh=USBASPI.SYS /o /e /v rem DI1000DD ASPI Disk Driver v2.00 rem (c) 2001 NOVAC Co Ltd devicehigh=DI1000DD.SYS Download those files to your C: root folder from http://www.stefan2000.com/darkehorse/PC/DOS/Drivers/USB/mhairu.zip 2. In Windows 98, open notepad and edit the file C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT by adding these three lines - PATH=%path%;C:\;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;E:\ MOUSE.EXE SMARTDRV.EXE 4096 16>nul 3. Boot your Windows 98 laptop to a DOS prompt (press F5 or F8 during startup), or with Windows 98 running restart in MS-DOS mode. Alternatively, edit the Msdos.sys file located on your C: drive. Under [Options] set BootGUI=0 then restart the computer. You now have access to your USB device in DOS mode. 4. If your USB device is recognised as Drive E: you can try the following - The comand ASSIGN was removed after MS-DOS v6.0 and is not available in Windows 98, which uses MS-DOS v7. The alternative is SUBST. Example: SUBST A: E: Ed On Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 1:02 am, Aun wrote: >Hi all, > >I have recently installed windows 98 se on an old laptop because i really need to >use a DOS program. The problem is that it has no floppy drive but still shows me >drive "A:" in "My Computer". > >I'm using an external floppy drive which is detected as drive E: > >The program that i need has to be installed from multiple floppy drives but when >i insert the second floppy it try's reading from A: and ignores the E: drive. For >some reason i cant browse to my external floppy drive E: when i restart in DOS prompt. > >So basically i need to make E: my A: drive > >Ideas? Written in response to: Please help delete Floppy Drive! (Aun: Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at 1:02 am) Responses to this message: re: Please help delete Floppy Drive! (gtea: Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 4:07 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] Please help delete Floppy Drive! (Aun: Wed, May 6, 2009, 1:02 am) re: Please help delete Floppy Drive! (Keith Stanier: Wed, May 6, 2009, 4:29 am) re: Please help delete Floppy Drive! (Aun: Wed, May 6, 2009, 11:17 pm) re: Please help delete Floppy Drive! (Steve: Wed, May 6, 2009, 6:40 am) Trying to install DOS app from floppies on system with no A: drive (gewg_: Wed, May 6, 2009, 10:50 am) re: Trying to install DOS app from floppies on system with no A: drive (Aun: Wed, May 6, 2009, 11:28 pm) re: Trying to install DOS app from floppies on system with no A: drive (gewg_: Thu, May 7, 2009, 12:37 pm) re: Please help delete Floppy Drive! (dhm: Sat, May 9, 2009, 8:16 pm) re: Please help delete Floppy Drive! (Ed: Sun, May 24, 2009, 9:56 am) re: Please help delete Floppy Drive! (gtea: Wed, Sep 2, 2009, 4:07 pm) re: Please help delete Floppy Drive! (Ed: Mon, Sep 14, 2009, 11:18 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum