I'm trying to get my backup computer running and I recently formatted C: because I had a glitch in WIN95. There are two floppy drives on this computer, but one is shown as "Detachable F" drive. Why is that drive shown as F instead of say "B"? If it's supposed to be "B" should I change it in the bias? Also, I tried installing an old game from a floppy disk unto C:\ through a clean DOS and it kept saying "Close door on Drive D" (which is the CD ROM). It's a simple card game and on a floppy that I want to install in my DOS section (not win). Why is it saying that? I recently put it in the other computer (also DOS 6.2.2 & Win95) but it installed onto C: drive with no hitch. It didn't stop installing by saying "close door on drive D". Any suggestions, advice on either or both of my questions would be greatly appreciated.

Drive A & B are normally reserved by your BIOS for Fixed Floppy Drives (Normally 3½" & 5¼" Types)With C onwards for Fixed Hard Drives, with Removable Devices such as CD-ROM, CD/RW's and other removable devices taking whatever letter is next after your last Hard Drive Letter. I say normally as you can re-allocate drive letters within Windows 9x to some extent. I have seen a Iomega Internal ZIP100 Drive allocated as Drive B As to your other problem! I have no idea!!

And since DOS (in the bias) allows for both an A & B floppy driver which are considered fixed drives, for what "reason" would someone set the second floppy drive as a removable F drive?

It would help if you listed what your drives in fact are? from A to F? You were not that informative in your post, and what are your BIOS setting for the A & B Drives? I was only stating the defaults! A & B Drives are not movable, 'Removable' Drives sometimes are. I do not not what bias stands for anyway, In a PC it is BIOS which stands for 'Basic Input/Output System' For more information try: http://www.sonal.co.uk/y2k10120.htm which includes information on TweakBIOS a utility lets you examine your BIOS/CMOS setting without haveing to re-boot. If you have two 'standard' fixed floopy drives, then something is indeed wrong.

'bias'... that's almost cute ; ) Just to echo what Mick said - if your floppy drives are being identified as other than A: & B: then something is seriously wrong with your system. Could be a bad BIOS setting or a faulty drive somewhere - really hard to say. A 'fixed' drive is considered to be non removable - a hard drive. Removable media are floppies & CDs etc - but floppy drives ALWAYS get a: & b: by default (even if they're not there) You need to determine which 'level' of the system these errors occur on - the BIOS is what starts the computer before DOS (or anything) loads. The "Close drive door" error is also an indication of drive problems - again, almost anything from a dirty CD lens to an interrupt conflict.

Thanks for the advice - Sorry about the misspell. Wrote that message at a very busy time here at work and I was brain dead). Actually I've gone in and out of the BIOS beginning over 15 yrs ago. My husband built his first computer all those yrs ago and got annoyed when BIOS didn't show the real size of the hard disk so he changed it. When he rebooted we had no computer. I got the BIOS setup book and thought, wow, I bet the cylinders heads are off. I went into the bios and changed them back to the original settings shown in the book and got it to format with DOS - then I put in Win 3.0 (which was brand new at that time). My husband kept my computer and his (which he built) state of the art for many years until he passed away (in 1998). We used to go to the computer shows almost every month. He'd check out and buy new hardware (motherboards, memory, disk drives; every chip known to mankind) if he thought it would be improvement (which was frequently). But he was one that could fix anything,not me. I learned a lot from him, but not enough. I used to change the config. system and autoexec.bat so many times it was a joke. I used to work with DOS a lot. I even got a DOS graphics shell I use on my computer for my DOS-based icons. We used to have a lot of fun fooling with the computers. But he was my backup so whatever I did wrong, if it was serious enough and I couldn't jump start it, he'd get it running. I still have DOS 6.2.2 because I like dosshell, have Win95 because I want to be able to use that DOS and upgrading WIN might lose that right for me. I haven't worked (changed) the hardware/software in the computers since he passed. But I'm having a problem with my own computer and wanted to use his computer as a backup before I try to fix mine. I know he had changed the tower shortly before he died and was working on it but I don't know how he set it up. It was working because since then I've played games and such on it. But it started acting up and I had to format C: and put everything back in. that's when I noticed the second floppy drive was "F" removable. I know that the BIOS usually shows A: B: for the floppy drives. This computer has two floppy drives (I assumed they were A: and B:, Drive C: and Drive D: (the CD ROM) and Drive E: (no, I don't know why E:\'s there either); DOS 6.2.2, WIN95, Award Bios, 256 mGh, 1.2 gig HD. I'll look at the bios and see if it shows both an A & B floppy drive. If it just shows A enabled, I'll set it to enable B floppy also and see if that will change that F removable floppy info. I might have to FDisk to delete Drive E: since I can't see any reason for that either. He wasn't feeling well at the time he was putting in the new tower and starting the computer from scratch; maybe that's why it's so wierdly set up. I just thought I'd ask some experts if there was a reason to name a floppy drive F: because I have been detached from working on or being up to date on the computer world for a number of years now. I appreciate all your advice.

Check the DOS CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files for an ASSIGN statement like: ASSIGN F:=B: In DOS the ASSIGN statement is used to redirect request for disk operation to a different drive. In this case any requests to drive F: would be assigned to the B: drive. Removing or commenting out the statement should get rid of the problem. But there may be something else that is using the F: drive letter, so you will have to look for that also. Also look for a DRIVER.SYS statement that could be causing problems. ie. creating a diskette drive referred to as F: