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re: Drive Letter for floppy?
Thursday, July 1, 2010 at 9:06 am
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Posted by NomadSmiley (1 messages posted)


Thanks, NetBoy! This did the trick. My problem was the same as others noted. For some magical reason, one day Windows XP recognized my floppy as a different letter than it has for many months if not years before. Thanks!


On Wednesday, April 28, 2004 at 4:33 am, NetBoy wrote:
>OOPS, I had a couple of space in the registry keys that weren't supposed to be there...
>Simple... Start Regedit and find:
>My Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices.
>
>Under that you will see a \DosDevices\B:
>Select the entry and press F2 (or Rt click and choose rename)
>Rename to \DosDevices\A:
>
>Make sure if you have an entry for A: that you rename that one to B:
>
>NetBoy


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re: Drive Letter for floppy? (NetBoy: Wednesday, April 28, 2004 at 4:33 am)

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-Drive Letter for floppy? (johnnyzero: Sun, Jan 25, 2004, 7:21 pm)
*re: Drive Letter for floppy? (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Sun, Jan 25, 2004, 7:29 pm)
-re: Drive Letter for floppy? (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Sun, Jan 25, 2004, 7:43 pm)
*re: Drive Letter for floppy? (johnnyzero: Sun, Jan 25, 2004, 8:10 pm)
-re: Drive Letter for floppy? (johnnyzero: Sun, Jan 25, 2004, 8:27 pm)
*re: Drive Letter for floppy? (Dan Sarandrea, MCSE: Sun, Jan 25, 2004, 8:39 pm)
-re: Drive Letter for floppy? (Adam Bradley: Sun, Jan 25, 2004, 8:41 pm)
*re: Drive Letter for floppy? (Philip Burton: Mon, Mar 15, 2004, 9:13 am)
*re: Drive Letter for floppy? (NetBoy: Wed, Apr 28, 2004, 4:21 am)
-re: Drive Letter for floppy? (NetBoy: Wed, Apr 28, 2004, 4:33 am)
-re: Drive Letter for floppy? (Bill Reed: Sun, Jul 3, 2005, 6:53 pm)
-re: Drive Letter for floppy? (NetBoy: Sun, Jul 3, 2005, 7:51 pm)
*re: Drive Letter for floppy? (alex rooney: Tue, Jul 12, 2005, 3:06 am)
*re: Drive Letter for floppy? (NomadSmiley: Thu, Jul 1, 2010, 9:06 am)
-re: Drive Letter for floppy? (deyanr: Sun, Nov 13, 2005, 4:44 am)
-re: Drive Letter for floppy? (gundo: Wed, Apr 5, 2006, 1:30 am)
*re: Drive Letter for floppy? (Adrian: Tue, Jul 24, 2007, 8:03 pm)
-re: Drive Letter for floppy? (riddle_93: Fri, Apr 25, 2008, 1:49 am)
*re: Drive Letter for floppy? (Jerzy Szumski: Thu, May 21, 2009, 11:42 am)
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