Re: Change floppy drive assignment from B: to A:

Hi, M.

As I recall, we always had to swap the FDD ribbon cable to change the floppy drive letters.

My current (15 years old!) floppy drive is a combination unit with both 3.5" and 5.25" drives in a half-height (remember that term?) case with only a single cable for both drives. But in the olden days we had to use two cables or a single cable with two physical connectors, usually split with a few wires twisted between the first and second connectors. If you can't remember - or can't find a reference - post back and we'll find what you need.

Since the letter B: was practically never used, I've assigned it to one of my USB flash drives and use it for B:\Backup of some of my data weekly. I can use Disk Management to change that letter, but Disk Management doesn't work for floppy drives. They are hard-wired.

RC
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"M Skabialka" <mskabialka@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:uaYTcU73JHA.1512@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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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