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re: Drive Letter for floppy?
Monday, March 15, 2004 at 9:13 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Philip Burton
(1 messages posted)
Ok, I'm having the same problem, but may have a little more info. I have a Dell Inspiron
8200. I have a removable floppy drive. I don't always have it handy, so I frequently
use a USB floppy drive. My laptop has 2 USB ports on it (1.1 I think). Depending
on which USB port I plug the floppy in determines whether it is A: or B: Ever since
I have used this external floppy drive though, when plug in my internal floppy, it
is always B: regardless of whether the USB one is connected or not. I have tried
rebooting, shutting down, looking in my BIOS, etc.
On Sunday, January 25, 2004 at 8:41 pm, Adam Bradley wrote:
>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? (Adam Bradley: Sunday, January 25, 2004 at 8:41 pm)
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