Floppy A: with no hardware installed

[sonxEr77]

Why should i have A: drive if i don't have a stiffy drive installed/existing on my PC. Now when i insert a USB stiffy drive it mounts as B: & it won't be detected by BIOS for booting up. How do i remove this non-existing A:

 

[Nod]

Try to disable it in "Device Manager".
Right-click "My Computer" -> Manage -> Device Manager.
Right-click on the floppy disk controller, and disable it.

 

[Juggy]

Disable floppy in the bios and choose your boot options to boot from external or USB device.

 

[graviti]

Exactly as Juggy said. If your BIOS is reporting an A:, then Windows will detect it and install it. Disabling it in Windows is pointless. Make sure it is disabled in your BIOS. But even that is unnecessary. If you want to boot off of a USB device, then just set your BIOS to boot off USB device. Setting it to boot off your A:, and expecting it to boot off a flash disk is silly, as it is two VERY different technologies, which do two different things. It won't in a million years work, even if you pray very hard.

Basically, to disable it showing in Windows, disable floppies in BIOS. However, some builds of XP and Win2K by default show a A:, even if not present. I have queried with MS, and they say it is occasional, and often due to third party app's reloading a system DLL which creates the functionality for their software. So they say it is not their issue.

PS, this is not an official MS stance, but heresay from talking to employees.

 

[sonxEr77]

Disable floppy in the bios and choose your boot options to boot from external or USB device.

Which USB? there's no USB stiffy/floppy option available. There's only USB-HDD, USB-CDROM, USB-ZIP... this i mean when choosing first boot

 

[Juggy]

Try anyone, you wont break the machine if it doesn't work.

 

[kronoSX]

disable it in bios,this is the only known way i know,and like the rest of the guyz said.