Vista changed my floppy drive to drive "B"

>i have been using Vista Ultimate for quite some time it seems now and
> suddenly last week I noticed that my floppy drive is now named drive "B".
> I
> have checked in my BIOS and that appears to be correct and I can't figure
> out
> how to get it back to being drive "A". I know there is little use for them
> these days but I tried to create a floppy for Seatools to run a diagnostic
> on
> one of my Seagate drives and I am told that I don't have a floppy drive. I
> am
> sorry but I can't seem to figure out how to change this drive back to
> being
> drive "A".

> I had the same problem. To rectify it I simply went to the Device Manager
> and uninstalled both the Floppy disk drive and the Floppy drive controller.
> Once you have done that just scan for hardware changes.
> Your floppy should now be A drive.
>
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> "George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A514658C-070E-4C95-92D6-7AA7F7FEA0BD@microsoft.com...

> >i have been using Vista Ultimate for quite some time it seems now and
> > suddenly last week I noticed that my floppy drive is now named drive "B".
> > I
> > have checked in my BIOS and that appears to be correct and I can't figure
> > out
> > how to get it back to being drive "A". I know there is little use for them
> > these days but I tried to create a floppy for Seatools to run a diagnostic
> > on
> > one of my Seagate drives and I am told that I don't have a floppy drive. I
> > am
> > sorry but I can't seem to figure out how to change this drive back to
> > being
> > drive "A".

>
>

> I don't even have a floppy, so I have no idea if this works. But, have you
> tried Computer Management | Disk Management, right-clicking on the floppy (I
> assume it shows up there) and telling it to Change Drive Letter and Paths?
> Does it give you the option for A:?
>
>
>
>
> "George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A514658C-070E-4C95-92D6-7AA7F7FEA0BD@microsoft.com...

> >i have been using Vista Ultimate for quite some time it seems now and
> > suddenly last week I noticed that my floppy drive is now named drive "B".
> > I
> > have checked in my BIOS and that appears to be correct and I can't figure
> > out
> > how to get it back to being drive "A". I know there is little use for them
> > these days but I tried to create a floppy for Seatools to run a diagnostic
> > on
> > one of my Seagate drives and I am told that I don't have a floppy drive. I
> > am
> > sorry but I can't seem to figure out how to change this drive back to
> > being
> > drive "A".

>

>I had the same problem. To rectify it I simply went to the Device Manager
>and uninstalled both the Floppy disk drive and the Floppy drive controller.
>Once you have done that just scan for hardware changes.
> Your floppy should now be A drive.
>
> --
> "George" <George@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A514658C-070E-4C95-92D6-7AA7F7FEA0BD@microsoft.com...

>>i have been using Vista Ultimate for quite some time it seems now and
>> suddenly last week I noticed that my floppy drive is now named drive "B".
>> I
>> have checked in my BIOS and that appears to be correct and I can't figure
>> out
>> how to get it back to being drive "A". I know there is little use for
>> them
>> these days but I tried to create a floppy for Seatools to run a
>> diagnostic on
>> one of my Seagate drives and I am told that I don't have a floppy drive.
>> I am
>> sorry but I can't seem to figure out how to change this drive back to
>> being
>> drive "A".

>