Single floppy disk appears twice in My Computer

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I have a single floppy disk drive, an LS-120. Under my
computer it shows two floppy drives. The B: drive is my
LS-120 and it works okay. The A: drive shown doesn't
really exist. How can I clear this up and show the LS-
120 as A: with no B:?

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I have already looked at my setup. It shows a 1.44M
floppy drive as A:. It doesn't show LS-120 or Superdisk
because it doesn't have that as an option. It was never
a problem until a few days ago when I was trying to get
into safe mode to install a program that was giving me
trouble in normal mode. The problem started when I tried
to boot in safe mode with CD-ROM access. I found a tip
on the web on how to do this. I activated the Startup
menu and went into Command Prompt, then I was supposed to
enter win /d:m but I incorrectly put in win /e:m
instead. After a while I found out that this had
activated a windows troubleshooting switch and I turned
it off. The CD-ROM came back without a problem but the
floppy has been appearing in duplicate ever since. Also,
this started when I was running Windows 98SE but I have
since upgraded to XP. I thought it would be easier to
clear up the problem under XP and some other glitches I
had did clear up when I upgraded, but this floppy disk
situation persists.


>-----Original Message-----
>Check your motherboard BIOS. It could have a standard
floppy drive defined
>i it.
>
>
>"Bill" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message
>news:20e3401c4596e$162c8eb0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
>> I have a single floppy disk drive, an LS-120. Under my
>> computer it shows two floppy drives. The B: drive is
my
>> LS-120 and it works okay. The A: drive shown doesn't
>> really exist. How can I clear this up and show the LS-
>> 120 as A: with no B:?
>
>
>.
>

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Then, you should change it to "None", since you do not have a standard
floppy drive. Your LS120 drive should be connected to an IDE cable. Then,
remove the LS120 drive from Device Manager and reboot. LS120 should now
become A:.

If Windows detects a floppy drive definition in your BIOS, it reserves A:
for it.


BTW: Are you running XP??? If you are running Windows 98SE, please post in
the Windows 98 newsgroupa. Also, you can not disable the A: floppy in
Windows 98. It "seems" to always replace it. XP can live without a floppy.


<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:204e001c45986$258af550$a601280a@phx.gbl...
> I have already looked at my setup. It shows a 1.44M
> floppy drive as A:. It doesn't show LS-120 or Superdisk
> because it doesn't have that as an option. It was never
> a problem until a few days ago when I was trying to get
> into safe mode to install a program that was giving me
> trouble in normal mode. The problem started when I tried
> to boot in safe mode with CD-ROM access. I found a tip
> on the web on how to do this. I activated the Startup
> menu and went into Command Prompt, then I was supposed to
> enter win /d:m but I incorrectly put in win /e:m
> instead. After a while I found out that this had
> activated a windows troubleshooting switch and I turned
> it off. The CD-ROM came back without a problem but the
> floppy has been appearing in duplicate ever since. Also,
> this started when I was running Windows 98SE but I have
> since upgraded to XP. I thought it would be easier to
> clear up the problem under XP and some other glitches I
> had did clear up when I upgraded, but this floppy disk
> situation persists.
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Check your motherboard BIOS. It could have a standard
> floppy drive defined
> >i it.
> >
> >
> >"Bill" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message
> >news:20e3401c4596e$162c8eb0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
> >> I have a single floppy disk drive, an LS-120. Under my
> >> computer it shows two floppy drives. The B: drive is
> my
> >> LS-120 and it works okay. The A: drive shown doesn't
> >> really exist. How can I clear this up and show the LS-
> >> 120 as A: with no B:?
> >
> >
> >.
> >

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Progress. I deleted the floppy drive from my setup and
am no longer getting the fictitious floppy drive A:.
However, the LS-120 continues to appear as B:. This is
not a serious problem, I admit, but I'd still rather it
appear as A:. Any idea why it's still picked up as B: or
how to change it to A:?


>-----Original Message-----
>Then, you should change it to "None", since you do not
have a standard floppy drive. Your LS120 drive should be
connected to an IDE cable. Then, remove the LS120 drive
from Device Manager and reboot. LS120 should now become
A:.
>
>If Windows detects a floppy drive definition in your
BIOS, it reserves A: for it.
>
>
>BTW: Are you running XP??? If you are running Windows
98SE, please post in the Windows 98 newsgroupa. Also,
you can not disable the A: floppy in Windows 98.
It "seems" to always replace it. XP can live without a
floppy.
>
>
><anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>news:204e001c45986$258af550$a601280a@phx.gbl...

I have already looked at my setup. It shows a 1.44M
floppy drive as A:. It doesn't show LS-120 or Superdisk
because it doesn't have that as an option. It was never
a problem until a few days ago when I was trying to get
into safe mode to install a program that was giving me
trouble in normal mode. The problem started when I tried
to boot in safe mode with CD-ROM access. I found a tip
on the web on how to do this. I activated the Startup
menu and went into Command Prompt, then I was supposed to
enter win /d:m but I incorrectly put in win /e:m
instead. After a while I found out that this had
activated a windows troubleshooting switch and I turned
it off. The CD-ROM came back without a problem but the
floppy has been appearing in duplicate ever since. Also,
this started when I was running Windows 98SE but I have
since upgraded to XP. I thought it would be easier to
clear up the problem under XP and some other glitches I
had did clear up when I upgraded, but this floppy disk
situation persists.
>>
>>
>> >-----Original Message-----
>> >Check your motherboard BIOS. It could have a standard
>> floppy drive defined
>> >i it.
>> >
>> >
>> >"Bill" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message
>> >news:20e3401c4596e$162c8eb0$a001280a@phx.gbl...
>> >> I have a single floppy disk drive, an LS-120.
Under my computer it shows two floppy drives. The B:
drive is my LS-120 and it works okay. The A: drive shown
doesn't really exist. How can I clear this up and show
the LS-120 as A: with no B:?
>> >
>> >
>> >.
>> >
>
>
>.
>