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Floppy drive ghost
Name: Darren Holbrook (by dstacyh) Date: March 13, 2007 at 01:31:50 Pacific OS: WIN XP SP1 CPU/Ram: PENT 4 / 1GB Product: Pent
Comment:
Why does my computer show a floppy drive "A" in my computer? I do'nt have a Floopy drive installed.
Name: jboy Date: March 13, 2007 at 02:03:14 Pacific
Reply:
It's nothing to obsess over - by long standing convention, A & B are reserved for floppy drives, regardless
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Response Number 2
Name: Michael J (by mjdamato) Date: March 13, 2007 at 10:37:27 Pacific
Reply:
Could be many reasons. Have you looked in device manager to see if the computer is detecting what it believes to be a floppy? Do you have any card readers or thumb drives connected that aren't accounted for? You should also check in Disc Management to see what device is being assigned drive letter A.
Michael J
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Response Number 3
Name: Cookiecrumb Date: March 13, 2007 at 13:24:21 Pacific
Reply:
It may be possible that in your bios you have the 1.44mb floppy drive installed while it is not physically attached to your mainboard. You may want to see if you have it installed in your BIOS and if so, you should be able to simply remove it.
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