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. 

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. 

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. 

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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You are having a hard time I see. You can boot to the bios if you have 98. While 
booting there is a key to press. Mine is F2. The last Motherboard I had was Del. 
(phantom)






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. 
>
>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. 
>
>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. 
>
>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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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. 
>
>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. 
>
>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. 
>
>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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