I'm using a SONY external USB FDD and drive letter is assigned as E:. Therefore, when I try to make a Network Setup disc with Win ME, it keeps searching for A:. Is there any method to change the drive letter of my USB FDD from E: to A:, or otherwise to change the default search path for floppy from A: to E:?

i am not sure if this will work. try disabling the floppy A: in your BIOS setup. if the drive does not assume drive A: try the subst command from a dos window eg: subst A: E: at the prompt type subst /? for help on the subst command or at www.surecool.com try the utility "drive letter assigner" near the top of the page. HTH Chappie

W98 is not completely wonderful where USB is concerned. 1. Get all of the patches (three I think) from M$ knowledge base that improve USB. 2. If you plug in your USB-floppy after the machine is running, it will always be recognised as (latest drive)+1, whether or not your floppy controller is disabled. 3. Many BIOSes will not allow the floppy *contoller* to be disabled, leading to a frustrating search every time windows starts. Windows will always look, no matter if you "disable in all hardware profiles" or anything else. Note that setting your floppy to "NONE" in the BIOS is *not* the same as disabling the *controller*. If there is not a separate setting, you can't disable it. 4. To keep your present setup, try leaving the USB floppy plugged in at all times, in particular, windows has to start with the floppy in place. Then you can use drive letter reassigners - which also run at startup. If you can disable the floppy controller, odds are good the drive will get A: without further ado. 5. If you are going to upgrade anyway, w2k is the first/only microsft product that allows complete user control of drive assignments.