How to get rid of Virtual "Floppy Disk" drive on my PC.

DragonBorn1511

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I have a PC here with a Biostar N68S+ Motherboard (AM2+AM3) running on OS W8.1 64Bit.

For some odd reason whenever I open windows explorer, it has my usual drives, but also has a, what I imagine is, a virtual Floppy Disk drive with the Label "A". This PC doesn;t have a floppy disk drive (yes I know it;'s an old PC but nowhere near old enough for one of those) nothing is plugged into any of the IDE Connectors etc etc. So that's what leads me to believe it's virtual.

If it had the label Z and appeared at the end of all my drives under explorer I probably wouldn't care so much, but being Label A it appears right at the start where I like my C (boot) drive to be.

I can't seem to find a way in disc management or properties to get rid of this virtual thing (uninstalling it from device manager just makes it reappear on the next start up). I imagine there's a way to do it via command prompt.

How do I do it?

Thanks.
 

DragonBorn1511

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I found it in the BIOS, thanks for your advice.

It was under General settings: "Drive A" It was set to 1.44M 3.5" or something like that, I just changed it to none, works a treat, thanks!