XP won't alow floppy drive letters above B:?

All this worked OK under Win2K workstation, but after moving to XP, it
doesn't.

At work, I use both a 2X USB floppy drive (B and VFD:
http://chitchat.at.infoseek.co.jp/vmware/vfd.html)
to see what's on self-extracting diskette images.

First problem:
VFD creates a virtual floppy drive to a disk .IMG file or RAM. Under
2000, I could set the drive letter to E:, and the VFD would show up in
My Computer as 3½ Floppy (E.
Under XP, the only way it will display as a floppy is as B: If I use
any available letter above D, it shows as a Removable Disk.

First question: How can I make my Virtual Floppy show up as a 3½
Floppy at highter drive letters in XP?



Second problem:
When the disk image .exe file was run by double-clicking in Win2K, it
shwed the response in the lower half of this image:
http://webpages.charter.net/dwarner2...npkCompare.JPG

The first thing it does is ask for the drive letter to unpack to..

Under XP Pro, SP2 (Or XP home), it displays the dialog in the upper
image, where it says to select the drive letter on the command line.

Strange.. The words "redirected" or "compatible" don't appear in the
exe, so they're probably compressed as well.

Second question: Does anyone know why XP might be changing the
behavior of these exe's?


The main problem:
When attempting to unpack the diskette image exe's to a VFD that's
labelled a "removable disk", XP blocks the operation with this pop-up:

"C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe - 33P2627 e:
An application has attempted to directly access the hard disk, which
cannot be supported. This may cause the application to function
incorrectly. Chose 'Close' to terminate the application."

Guess what XP: E: is not a hard disk, it's a piece of memory hiding
behind a driver.
This issue doesn't happen when the VFD is set to B:, with it's 3½
Floppy label. Unfortunately, I need this letter for the USB drive.
If I can get XP to recognize E: as a 3½ Floppy, then this problem will
go away.

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