floppy drive now a "b" drive?

Doing a clean install win98se (after fdisk and format).
boot disk won't start in "a" drive but will start floppy
if I b:at the command prompt. 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 a boot disk?
therefore where is the "a" drive? is it on the hard drive?
virtual drive or what? I cant read or write to the "a"
drive (remember its a virtual drive?) the actual floppy
drive is now called the "b" drive.and I can write and read
through b: prompt.....whew so here's the real
problem...when installing win98se it "thinks" that the
boot floppy is still in ("a" drive) and asks to remove it
before proceeding....no disk to remove...! i've checked
the bios ect and don't see anything wrong help please

Sounds like the setting in your BIOS for "Swap floppy drives" (or similar
wording) has been changed would be my quess.

"Doug" wrote in message
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Doing a clean install win98se (after fdisk and format).
boot disk won't start in "a" drive but will start floppy
if I b:at the command prompt. 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 a boot disk?
therefore where is the "a" drive? is it on the hard drive?
virtual drive or what? I cant read or write to the "a"
drive (remember its a virtual drive?) the actual floppy
drive is now called the "b" drive.and I can write and read
through b: prompt.....whew so here's the real
problem...when installing win98se it "thinks" that the
boot floppy is still in ("a" drive) and asks to remove it
before proceeding....no disk to remove...! i've checked
the bios ect and don't see anything wrong help please

Searched the BIOS and can't find anything like the swap
floppies, yes that was my first thought to. Any other
ideas? where are the files that are in "a" drive actually
held? even when I reboot "a" drive had the files there
even though the floppy drive ("B") is empty! thanks
-----Original Message-----
Sounds like the setting in your BIOS for "Swap floppy
drives" (or similar
wording) has been changed would be my quess.

"Doug" wrote in
message
...
Doing a clean install win98se (after fdisk and format).
boot disk won't start in "a" drive but will start floppy
if I b:at the command prompt. 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 a boot disk?
therefore where is the "a" drive? is it on the hard
drive?
virtual drive or what? I cant read or write to the "a"
drive (remember its a virtual drive?) the actual floppy
drive is now called the "b" drive.and I can write and
read
through b: prompt.....whew so here's the real
problem...when installing win98se it "thinks" that the
boot floppy is still in ("a" drive) and asks to remove
it
before proceeding....no disk to remove...! i've checked
the bios ect and don't see anything wrong help please



.

Doug wrote:
Searched the BIOS and can't find anything like the swap
floppies, yes that was my first thought to. Any other
ideas? where are the files that are in "a" drive actually
held? even when I reboot "a" drive had the files there
even though the floppy drive ("B") is empty! thanks

Eee wait.

What kind of system are you using here?! Standard PCs have no virtrual
floppy drives!

How many floppy drives are in your system?