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Floppy disk drive in disk management

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by j.lyon

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i need to change my floppy disk drive letter!
from z to e.

which i know how to do, but for some reason my floppy disk drive does not appear in disk management yet it does appear in my computer and i can use it!!!

any ideas on how to make it appear?

im running windows xp fully updated and it is an internal hard drive.

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by p.j.hutchison

Floppy disks are allocated A: (and B:) by default in Windows, I don't think you can change those.

You can change drive letters for Zip, USB, Hard disks, CDROM, DVDROM and other devices.

by oh smeg

It's either a Zip, LS 120, or something along those lines and connects to an IDE lead. If you had a floppy installed it would be locked to either A or B Drive Designations and this is done through BIOS where you can swap Floppies.

Instead of looking on Disc Management try looking in Device Manager and you should find this drive there.

But I wouldn't suggest moving the drive letter down the chain at all as there is nothing to gain and a lot to possibly loose by doing this.

Col

by j.lyon

i changed the letter to z previously to use an external floppy drive so i know it can be done.

a piece of software we use designed especially for our company requires that the floppy drive be drive b and as standard they are.
but we had to change it so the external drive was d. know we want to go back to the internal drive yet it wont appear in disk management yet it does appear in device manager, but that is no use to me.

by p.j.hutchison

What kind of external drive is it? Is it a USB external drive or via something else?

Try inserting a disk in the drive before trying to access it via Disk Management and see if it appears so you can change the drive letter.

by j.lyon

i have tried that.

i installed and re-instsalled drive i have tried with and with out disk i have tried in safe mode. i have tried everything i can think of!

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