Floppy Disk Drive B:

elevenseventysix · 22 Mar 2007 at 10:54

Floppy Disk Drive B: - Problem

Hi there,

I've just popped a new floppy disk drive in my [Vista] computer and I'm having a couple of problems with it.

It's all connected up fine and will read and write floppy's no problem, but it's showing up as drive B: There are no problems in Device manager either. Everything looks absolutely fine but also note, in BIOS it reads as A: and not B:

I've Googled as much as I can, and it all leads me to the same place - the Computer Management Console page where you usually change the drive names etc. The only problem is that the floppy drive does not even exist in this page! Every single one of my drives shows up there, except the floppy drive...

The reason for fixing this problem is I'm making a Maxtor HDD floppy disk to check my hard drives and potentially format them - usually I'd just leave it at B: but the program requires the floppy to be as A: drive.

Any help is greatly appreciated and hoe that wasn't a muddy explanation!

Cheers!

overcl0cker · 22 Mar 2007 at 12:33

Go into device manager and right click the floppy - then try and update drivers. Then go back to computer management to try and change drive name?

oc.

ns400r · 22 Mar 2007 at 15:07

Look at the flat grey cable that connects the drive to the motherboard.
How many connectors are on it and which one is connected to the drive?

elevenseventysix · 25 Mar 2007 at 09:48

I think I've solved it! Thanks for your help!

Cheers, Jack

ns400r · 25 Mar 2007 at 16:03

And the solution was...................................?

elevenseventysix · 25 Mar 2007 at 22:38

ns400r said:
And the solution was...................................?

A reformatting of both HDD's, and a reinstall of Vista... :confused:

No idea why, but it fixed itself...!

jackassuk56 · 26 Mar 2007 at 08:29

i think you might have gotten away with just remapping the drive letter in disk management,

and setting it in a there.

well atleast its working now,

jackassuk56

elevenseventysix · 26 Mar 2007 at 13:52

jackassuk56 said:
i think you might have gotten away with just remapping the drive letter in disk management,

and setting it in a there.

well atleast its working now,

jackassuk56

That's pretty much one of the first things I tired doing... but the drive wasn't showing up in Disk Management for some reason, so I couldn't change the name.

Although it's back to A: now, it's still not showing in Disk Management :confused:

Who knows!

utajoker · 26 Mar 2007 at 14:42

jackassuk56 said:
i think you might have gotten away with just remapping the drive letter in disk management,

and setting it in a there.

well atleast its working now,

jackassuk56

or just leave it as B drive? whats wrong with it being called B?

elevenseventysix · 27 Mar 2007 at 09:06

utajoker said:
or just leave it as B drive? whats wrong with it being called B?

jackgnic said:
The reason for fixing this problem is I'm making a Maxtor HDD floppy disk to check my hard drives and potentially format them - usually I'd just leave it at B: but the program requires the floppy to be as A: drive.