Change floppy drive letter

[CTurtle]

Just removed an LS-120 drive from a W2k system. The drive was designated A: and the standard floppy drive was B:. Without the LS-120 the standard floppy still registers as drive B:. How do I get the system to recognize the floppy as drive A:? Can't find anything in the BIOS that pertains to this problem.

 

[Schlogg]

There's a very vague chance this might help.
1. Is the LS-120 physically removed and not just uninstalled?
2. Check the cabling to ensure the FDD is the first or last on the data cable (I can't remember which.)
3. Uninstall the floppy in W2K and let W2K find it on reboot.


Cheers,
Paul J.

 

[CTurtle]

Thanks,
I tried that. Also added a second floppy which produced an A and B floppy, but when I removed either the remaining floppy still registered as B. Running out of time I just reinstalled the LS120 which shows as A and removed the floppy altogether. Thanks again for your reply.

 

[Schlogg]

Just a thought. Does the floppy register as B only? Don't forget a single floppy is both A and B.

Cheers,
Paul J.

 

[CTurtle]

Yes. The single floppy, on either connection, registers as B. I kind of think that the LS120 locked on to the A designation in the registry some where and maintained that even though the LS120 was removed. As I stated previously using 2 floppy drives one was A and one was B, but one floppy by itself always registers as B.

Thanks

 

[Schlogg]

Weird, eh!
I promise to drop it now. Was interested because I had a similar problem with a HDD. Win95 simply would not recognise it at all until I agreed that it was removable. Then it was happy.

Cheers,
Paul J.

 

[terryISO]

Hi.

CTurtle, the answer is amost certainly in the BIOS. When the PC starts up, you need to go into the BIOS setup screen and you will probably see that drive A: is set up as something other than a 1.44M floppy.

Just change the setting (also set B: to no drive), then all should be OK.

Terry

 

[CTurtle]

Hi Terry,
Been there, done that. Everything looks the way it should, so I still think there's something in the registry that's causing the problem.
Thanks for the thought.

 

[bri2054]

Have you checked the registry for references to LS-120?

Removing any reference to that device may force W2K to see the floppy as a: ?

Just a thought

 

[CTurtle]

That will be my next project. I was in a rush to establish an A drive so re-installing the LS120 was the quickest route. Thanks for all your input.