Pendrive as A:

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hi thas anybody know, hot can I connect pendrive to usb as drive A. on
win2000pro.

Brgd
bronti
 
bronti said:
hi thas anybody know, hot can I connect pendrive to usb as drive A. on
win2000pro.

Brgd
bronti
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To the best of my knowledge, you can't. A must always be the first floppy
drive.
 
Cerridwen said:
To the best of my knowledge, you can't. A must always be the first floppy
drive.
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I haven't tried this but, if you don't have a floppy, can you SUBST A: for
the real pendrive letter?
 
I haven't tried this but, if you don't have a floppy, can you
SUBST A: for the real pendrive letter?
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He probably wants to boot from it and unless his BIOS supports it,
probably not. I don't think you can use SUBST with A:, B: or C:.
You _can_ do something like subst X: C:, but not the other way around.

Adam
 
He probably wants to boot from it and unless his BIOS supports it,
probably not. I don't think you can use SUBST with A:, B: or C:.
You _can_ do something like subst X: C:, but not the other way around.

Adam
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Hi I wont to use this pendrive in stead of A drive because my homebanking
software can only use a drive? system win2000pro;-)

brgd
 
Adam Leinss said:
He probably wants to boot from it and unless his BIOS supports it,
probably not. I don't think you can use SUBST with A:, B: or C:.
You _can_ do something like subst X: C:, but not the other way around.
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I've just tried a SUBST B: c:\blah_blah and that works, probably because I
don't have a 'real' drive B:. The SUBST A: didn't work, again probably
because I DO have a real A:.
Msg to OP: Try setting your existing drive A: as B: in your BIOS (if
possible), then use a SUBST A: P: (P = pendrive letter).
 
Hi I wont to use this pendrive in stead of A drive because my
homebanking software can only use a drive? system win2000pro;-)
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Sounds like a great piece of software there. <ahem>

The problem is that drives A:, B: and C: are usually reserved drive
letters in DOS and Windows and even if they don't exist, Windows
usually will act funny because it always expects A: and B: to be floppy
drives and C: to be a hard drive. At least they have been for the past
23 years.

As cheap as this sounds, I think you need to upgrade your home banking
software. =)

Adam
 
Hi, ...upgrade homebanking software.....ja ja naturlich......but i get the
latest version...so...(bank isynt too elastic instytution) and ups i forget
.... thanx SUBST working ;-)

BRGD
 
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