Floppy 1.44 format switches to C:drive

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We got our son a machine that didn't have a floppy drive installed and
he still has the one of the old Sony Mavica digital cameras, so I
found a Sony USB floppy drive and had it sent to him. His second
machine that had a floppy drive went down and that was why he needed a
floppy drive. He said every time he goes to format one of the floppies
it switches to the C:drive and he has to stop it. Why would it be
doing this, and what can he do?
 
slhayes said:
We got our son a machine that didn't have a floppy drive installed and
he still has the one of the old Sony Mavica digital cameras, so I
found a Sony USB floppy drive and had it sent to him. His second
machine that had a floppy drive went down and that was why he needed a
floppy drive. He said every time he goes to format one of the floppies
it switches to the C:drive and he has to stop it. Why would it be
doing this, and what can he do?
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Without knowing too much about the computer in question nor seeing
how its bios is configured, one possibility is that the computer is
seeing the external, USB floppy drive as a "local drive". And a little
bit of carelessness at attempting to format the floppy, especially via
the Command Prompt is leading to Drive C (which, presumably, is the
system partition?). It would have been better to have purchased a Sony
1.44-inch floppy diskette drive.
 
Hello,

It is normal for the drive to switch to C drive when formatting A drive.

What really happened was that when you format the A drive, explorer has to
move one drive down to stop accessing the A drive. That next drive happens
to be C but in reality it is formatting A.

Also, you will not be able to format C drive (from Windows) when the
operating system is running from the C drive.

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