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More info?)
Thanks for trying. I haven't used the floppy for a long time myself. Now I
want to test a Maxtor hard drive with Powermax. I downloaded the exe file to
my desktop and
it needs to be extracted to a floppy. The exe program
is looking for the "a" drive and does not see the "b".
That's why I am fussing with it.
Thank you.
"Nathan McNulty" <nospam@msn.com> wrote in message
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> OK, wasn't sure if that was configurable from there or not. I haven't
> had a floppy drive in 3 years, so I don't remember too much of that.
> Sounds really odd since you have tried BIOS settings and everything but
> it still appears as B:
>
> I'm not really sure what to do from there since I don't have a floppy to
> play with
>
> ----
> Nathan McNulty
>
>
> Sirius376 wrote:
> > I did, but only hard drive partitions are manageable.
> >
> > Thanks anyway.
> >
> >
> > "Nathan McNulty" <nospam@msn.com> wrote in message
> > news:u0Pqj9AdEHA.3596@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> >
> >>Have you tried Disk Management and assign it A:? Right click on My
> >>Computer, click Manage, click Disk Management, right click on the
> >>floppy, choose Change Drive Letter, and change it to A:
> >>
> >>----
> >>Nathan McNulty
> >>
> >>
> >>Sirius376 wrote:
> >>
> >>>Thank you for the article. In response to it:
> >>>I am using a round skinny floppy cable. I take it that the 'a' drive
> >
> > still
> >
> >>>has to be on the end so that's not it.
> >>>
> >>>I do have an LS-120 drive which I totally disconnected to experiment,
> >
> > made
> >
> >>>no difference.
> >>>
> >>>The article does not mention windows XP.
> >>>
> >>>I had no problems in windows 98 se. Only since I upgraded
> >>>to xp. In win98se I had the ls-120 as an 'h' drive, after the cd and
> >
> > dvd. I
> >
> >>>would like it the same in winxp.
> >>>
> >>>I was having problems with the ls-120 also in xp. It was the 'a' drive
> >
> > and
> >
> >>>would disappear from explorer after an unsuccessful floppy read. I was
> >
> > going
> >
> >>>to post about it also.
> >>>It's made by digital research and reads as Mitsubishi.
> >>>Not sure if supported by XP.
> >>>
> >>>Any other suggestions? Thank you.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>"Neil" <neil@jackeen.com> wrote in message
> >>>news:4f1e01c473e5$cdc19f20$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>try here
http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000324.htm
> >>>>
> >>>>Neil.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>-----Original Message-----
> >>>>>My floppy drive reads as a "b" drive I can't make it
> >>>>
> >>>>into "a".
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>It is "a" in the cmos. I tried uninstalling and re-
> >>>>
> >>>>detecting but to no
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>>avail. Any help would be appreciated.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>Thank you.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>>.
> >>>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >
> >