A Drive Thinks It's a B Drive

[rtaaron]

I have reloaded my Win 98se operating system and some needed drivers and now "My Computer" shows an A: drive and a B: drive with my single floppy being B:. I have tried deleting floppy drives and the floppy controller in Device Manager and reinstalling floppy. When I re-boot the Dell L433C (Celeron) computer, the Device Manager again shows two floppy drives assigned to A: and B: with the real floppy on B: and A: being some sort of virtual drive. Based on the above I assume the floppy drivers are being installed via autoexec.bat or config.sys, but I don't know what to change to eliminate the redundant driver. Can anyone help on this?

[Abyss]

Try removing all instances of the drive (like you already did), shut your comp down. Unplug your floppy drive and start the comp back up. Shut down again and plug your floppy back in and start back up. See what this does.

You could also try going to the manufacturers site and see if there is an updated driver for your floppy drive.

[rtaaron]

I tried removing floppy controller as suggested, then powering down and disconnecting floppy cable. Upon reboot I again have floppie drives A and B under My Computer. This time both are bogus. I reconnected cable to floppy and rebooted. I am back to original condition with two floppies showing and B: being the real one. I notice my floppy controller driver details show two line entries for drivers in C:\windows\system\. The first is \IOSUBSYS\HSFLOP.pdr and the second is \VMM32\IOS.vxd. These have to be originating from some of the startup programs, but in not easy to recognize format. Any other ideas? Thanks for any help.