"A" drive is now "B" drive?

[Dougt]

Doing a clean install win98se. boot disk won't start in "a" drive but will start floppy if I b:. the floppy "a" drive is now responding as a "b" drive. Here's the problem: when I do a dir on the a: prompt I get the contents of the boot disk? therefore where is the "a" drive? I cant read or write to the "a" drive (remember it a virtual drive?) the actual floppy drive is now called the "b" drive......whew so here's the real problem...when installing win98se it "thinks" that the boot floppy is still in and asks to remove it before proceeding....no disk to remove...! help please

[Wainui]

What make and model of computer ?
Have you had a look in the BIOS setup for any changes to the drive lettering ?
Also look at your Bootup sequence, it should be D:, A:, C: (D being the CD-Rom drive or whatever lettering you use for the CD-Rom)

[Dougt]

HP Pavillion 750n (1.6GHz, 80meg HD, 512 ram), boot sequence is E (cdrom) A, C no B is shown. When it tries to boot from floppy ie A nothing actually happens in the flopy drive until I change the command prompt to B and then DIR then the floppy drive "reads". What's weird is that when I do a DIR of the A drive I get some contents that were on the Boot Disk? Do I have a "virtual" A drive or is it in the RAM or what? Thanks