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user11010
Asked: 2009-07-16 13:23:48 +0800 CST

Map Floppy A drive to USB

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I need a way to assign my windows A: drive to a usb. In fact multiple usb's keys and always the standard windows floppy drive A:. It doesn't need to be bootable...

Yes I know that I can set the drive letter but this is not persistant. If I change the USB key the new one is drive letter E:\ again...

I have 3 USB keys that rotate so everytime I take one of the keys it should appear as drive letter A: I should not be limited to 1.44 MB

I know there is a key from hp which has some sort of bios on it. But that is also not what would help me... Just general USB keys.

Is there a tool or a service or an emulator which runs in the background that's maps any usb drive to A:

Any help would be great thanks..

windows usb floppy mappeddrive

6 Answers

  1. Even though you said it doesn't need to be bootable... here's the way to make it bootable so it will come up at an A:\ prompt:

    http://elnexus.com/articles/floppy-vista.aspx

    UPDATE:

    If you're using Windows XP try this:

    1. Click the Windows Start Button.
    2. Click Control Panel
    3. Click Performance and Maintinance
    4. Click Administrative Tools
    5. Double Click Computer Managment
    6. Click on Disk Managment
    7. At the Bottom of that screen, right click on the drive that you want to assign a letter to, and select Change Drive Letter.
    8. Click on the Drive that you are assigning in the pop up dialog.
    9. Click Change
    10. In The drop down box that is shown, select the letter that you would like assigned
    11. Click on okay.

    This will reassign the drive letter for your drive.

    When you plug/unplug the drives they should come up with the same drive letters.

    The only thing I DON'T know sure sure is if "A:" will work or not.

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  2. No that I know of, the drive letter mapping is usually stored with the drive id, as is any NTFS folder mount.

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  3. Note that I would try all other options first. There is a utility that has been around since the beginning of time called SUBST that will map any drive path to a drive letter.

    With this you could run the SUBST command (below) directly or through a batch file, automatically with an Autorun.inf file when you plug the drive in.

    SUBST A: %~dp0

    If you are using XP, you might also want to look at Microsoft USB Flash Drive Manager.

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  4. What about a Virtual floppy drive on a USB stick?

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  5. If drive letter is always E have a look at subst command. Complete help can be found using

    subst /?
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  6. Best Answer

    I found this tool useful it is called USB Drive letter manager... http://www.uwe-sieber.de/usbdlm.html

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