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Change floppy drive assignment from B: to A:
M Skabialka wrote:
There isn't a floppy drive in Disk Management on my Vista Ultimate computer either, which is why I posed the question here! Mich Just a thought here........ Cut and pasted from "Windows Help and Support": quote on Microsoft Management Console: standard and optional snap-ins This topic provides you with information about the common administration and troubleshooting tasks and tools associated with Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and MMC snap-ins. Common tasks Useful tools Downloads Deployment Operations Technical reference Common tasks Some MMC snap-ins require elevated privileges to function properly. To open MMC with elevated privileges, click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, right-click Command Prompt and then point to Run as administrator. In the command prompt that opens, type mmc.exe. Some MMC snap-ins are only available after certain additional features have been installed. To install additional features Open Control Panel and click Programs. In Installed Programs, click Turn on or off Windows features. If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and then click Continue. Select the checkboxes for features you want to install. (Clear checkboxes for features you want to uninstall.) Click OK. Useful tools This section describes the Microsoft Web site downloads and tools associated with this version of Windows that help you configure and manage MMC and snap-ins. Disk Management snipped for brevity quote off Might be worth taking a peek at. :-) |
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Change floppy drive assignment from B: to A:
M Skabialka,
Does your BIOS show a floppy drive connected and enabled? "propman" wrote in message ... M Skabialka wrote: There isn't a floppy drive in Disk Management on my Vista Ultimate computer either, which is why I posed the question here! Mich Just a thought here........ Cut and pasted from "Windows Help and Support": quote on Microsoft Management Console: standard and optional snap-ins This topic provides you with information about the common administration and troubleshooting tasks and tools associated with Microsoft Management Console (MMC) and MMC snap-ins. Common tasks Useful tools Downloads Deployment Operations Technical reference Common tasks Some MMC snap-ins require elevated privileges to function properly. To open MMC with elevated privileges, click Start, click All Programs, click Accessories, right-click Command Prompt and then point to Run as administrator. In the command prompt that opens, type mmc.exe. Some MMC snap-ins are only available after certain additional features have been installed. To install additional features Open Control Panel and click Programs. In Installed Programs, click Turn on or off Windows features. If the User Account Control dialog box appears, confirm that the action it displays is what you want, and then click Continue. Select the checkboxes for features you want to install. (Clear checkboxes for features you want to uninstall.) Click OK. Useful tools This section describes the Microsoft Web site downloads and tools associated with this version of Windows that help you configure and manage MMC and snap-ins. Disk Management snipped for brevity quote off Might be worth taking a peek at. :-) |
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Change floppy drive assignment from B: to A:
"M Skabialka" wrote in message ... There isn't a floppy drive in Disk Management on my Vista Ultimate computer either, which is why I posed the question here! Mich Have you checked your BIOS settings? Some have a Swap Floppy Drive Letter option Tom Lake |
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Change floppy drive assignment from B: to A:
I finally rebooted - I have an A: drive and no B: drive. Thanks for the
help! Mich "PaulB" wrote in message ... Start Regedit and find: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices. Under that you will see a \DosDevices\B: Select the entry and press F2 (or Rt click and choose rename) Rename to \DosDevices\A: (i.e change the B to an A) Reboot and you should be good. As always if you make a mistake in the registry your system could become unusable so use caution. I would backup that key or at least have a restore point that you could use. -- Paul "M Skabialka" wrote: I built myself a computer a couple of years ago and have Vista Ultimate on it. Recently I went to create a floppy disk for maintenance on another computer and found that the floppy drive (which I haven't used before) is labeled as the B drive. How do I change that back to A? Right now I am using subst a: "b:" which works for now but would rather set it permanently. |
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