Re: miising "A" drive

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It may be set as default- it has been on those I've seen apart from some
notebooks.


"Malke" <notreally@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Stephen Whitlock wrote:

The BIOS should not autosense the floppy drive. You will have to
enable it manually by setting the "drive "A" (none)" to 1.44MB type.

It depends on the motherboard. I've never gone in and set the floppy
drive manually on any of mine.

Malke
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