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re: Drive Letter for floppy?
Sunday, January 25, 2004 at 8:41 pm
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Posted by Adam Bradley (7201 messages posted)

See if the BIOS has an option to disable the floppy disk controller
Do the same in the device manager
XP may be picking up on a nonexistent floppy and tying up the A: designation for it
You might want to check in disk management and see if the USB floppy shows up in there
I know standard floppies don’t but that may be different for the USB variety

Just out of curiosity can you use a USB floppy to boot to a boot disk?
Regards, Adam Bradley

On Sunday, January 25, 2004 at 8:27 pm, johnnyzero wrote:

>Also, Toshiba tech support was no help. The tech tried to have me edit/check the 
>HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\ Enum\ FLOP\CurrentDriveLetterAssignment key, until I reminded 
>him that this key exists in the registry for Win98/ME, but not in XP. If only I 
could 
>find the analogous key for XP...
>
>






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re: Drive Letter for floppy? (johnnyzero: Sunday, January 25, 2004 at 8:27 pm)


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re: Drive Letter for floppy? (Philip Burton: Monday, March 15, 2004 at 9:13 am)