KB205859 - Removable Disk (A:) Appears in My Computer on Computer with No Floppy Disk Drive

Article ID: 205859

Article Last Modified on 1/23/2007

Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition
Microsoft Windows 98 Standard Edition
Microsoft Windows 95

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SYMPTOMS

When you double click My Computer on a computer with no floppy disk drive installed, a removable disk (A:) appears. When you view the drives in Device Manager, no floppy disk drive is listed because none exists on the computer.

CAUSE

MS-DOS always creates drive A on a computer. When Windows starts, this information is transferred to the real-mode manager (RMM).

STATUS

This behavior is by design.

Additional query words: HWFDCTL

Keywords: kbprb kbui KB205859