Making a Folder the A: Drive ?????

Spunog UIE

Is there any way i can let windows think that a folder is the A: drive. The reason for doing this is that the connection for the floppy on my mother board is fecked, and i need a few programs that will only extract to the floppy drive, the main one i'm interested in is for formatting my seagate hd.

Or perhaps i could change the letter of my external usb zip drive to make it think thats the a: drive. Any helpful suggestions are appreciated.

Thanks,
Alo.

Zab

Have a look at the subst command. subst /? for a list of parameters.

Zab.

uch

What OS you using ??

Spunog UIE

Win98se and then Win2k once i get my hd sorted.

Have a look at the subst command. subst /? for a list of parameters.

through dos is it? mmmm can ya explain a bit more.

Thx.

uch

Dont know of any way to do it in 98, probably be quicker to get a new FDD

Ruaidhri

for win2k

1)disable the floppy controller from the hardware manager
2)use subst

sceptre

Originally posted by Ruaidhri
2)use subst

Syntax (for want of a better word) will be

e.g.

subst a: c:\adrive

(someone please correct me if I have it arseways)

Can be entered at a command prompt or added to autoexec if you want it all the time

If you just enter it at a command prompt, repeating the command with a /D at the end will dump it.

You will have to disable the drive, as Ruaidhri mentioned - it won't work if you already have a drive with the letter you want.

Spunog UIE

thanks will give that a go.

<edit> Finally got win2k and installed it and just wanted to let ya's that it worked purrrfectly. Very handy and quick,

Thanks,
Alo

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