Ross1234 said:Sprechen Sie Duetsch?
Is that German?
Yes you can, and when you have used everything from A to Z then it's time to mount the drive/partition as a folderMarcLister said:Can you not use A: and B:? If you don't use a floppy drive, surely you can use A: for another drive?
Ross1234 said:oops
this is all i could find
"Windows 2000 automatically assigns drive letters to all partitions, including partitions that are in raw format (partitions that have not been formatted). This can cause a problem if there are many partitions because Windows 2000 may run out of drive letters to assign. Some programs use raw partitions; assigning drive letters in this case is not required or appropriate."
EDIT: I found out. It simply doesn't show it.
Exactly. I was telling the OP that because I couldn't see A and B being used, then perhaps he could use them. But I suppose they could be used for removable drives so not visible but already declared as it were.mctiny said:Yes you can, and when you have used everything from A to Z then it's time to mount the drive/partition as a folder![]()
MarcLister said:Exactly. I was telling the OP that because I couldn't see A and B being used, then perhaps he could use them. But I suppose they could be used for removable drives so not visible but already declared as it were.
Start>Settings>Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Storage>Disk Management.snowdog said:Hmmm mounting, never heard of it lol.
As for A and B, yes they're free, how can u assign hdd's to them, tbh I can't believe windows still reserves this for floppy's, I haven't used them since cd rewritables became affordable.
MarcLister said:Start>Settings>Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Storage>Disk Management.
Then right click on a drive and change drive letter. However I cannot see A: or B: in the list. Only C-Z in there. So either there is another way/tool to do this or Windows need to be told to allow A: and B: to be used.
MarcLister said:Interesting that you should say that. I have a floppy drive but its not enabled in the BIOS as I very rarely use it and I used to accidentally hit the A: drive in Windows Explorer when I wanted C:. Cue a few seconds of noisy whirring and then Windows moaning that there is no disk in A:! Really Sherlock?!![]()
So I disabled, not to recycle A:, but to save me some time and annoyance.
mctiny said:I'm guessing you have to remove or disable the FDD controller within the BIOS to allocate A/B to HDD's.
well thats me stumpedsnowdog said:Both are disabled, it's the first thing I do after a clean bios, the last thing I need is bios searching for a floppy as 1st boot device and windows searching for a floppy and showing one up in my computer while there isn't one.
When will manufacturers believe those damn drives are obselete, they remove 1x ide but leave floppy, remove the damn floppy from the mainboard mobo manufacturers and leave IDE alone
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Raid drivers dont even have to be on floppy's, my dad copied the raid drivers from a pre made floppy onto a cd and gave the cd to me and it worked fine, why do manufacturers still make raid drivers for floppy's instead of cd's?
Still no A:\ and B;\ tho for selection in disk management.