make usb drive seen as drive A:

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Is it possible to make windows see a usb drive as drive A: ???
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Yes, but the Windows Explorer might show it still as 3 1/2" Floppy
if the drive has no drive name.

You can change the drive letter in the Disk Management
(Start -> Run -> diskmgmt.msc).
Right click on the drive -> Change drive letter


If A: is not availlable even you have no floppy drive, then
delete the mountpoint A: first:
mountvol /D A:

If you have a floppy, then change its drive letter to B:
or something else by my tool ReMount:
remount a: b:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/remount.zip


Uwe
 
If I have the [A:] drive enabled in the BIOS, and no device connected, then
a USB Floppy will NOT be found or assigned a Drive Letter.

If the [A:] drive is disabled, the USB Floppy is properly recognised at boot
time, assigned the A: Drive Letter wether or not a standard Floppy is
connected at the time.

This is how my system behaves, other's may have it differently, but I think
a modern OS is setting things up according to how BIOS enumerates hardware
as it is found at boot time.

If you don't have any standard Floppy, just try and disable it in the BIOS
setup!


Tony. . .
 
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