One drive unit missing in "My Computer"?!? | Thread profile

Hi all, For some reason my A: drive is missing.. (yes I know.. only a floppy drive..) but its useful for smaller transfers.. in any case.. I can not access it at all.. when I start up the PC I can hear it accessing it as usually but it does not show up under "My Computer" together with all the other drives.. its enabled in the bios so I am not sure what happened.. have checked the cables also...

has it been disabled in device manager? if it does not show up in device manager then there may be something wrong with the device or its physical connection, or maybe a bios setting hidden in never-never land.

Nope, it shows in device manager and says its enabled.. Any other suggestions please?

open computer management (type compmgmt.msc in run box or vista search bar) select disk management. your floppy drive should be listed there. right click it in disk management, and choose change drive letter. if it does not show up there go to the floppy drives properties page in device manager and see if it is showing as working in the device status box.

is it enabled in the BIOS?

Thank you for your replies! Very much appreciated! As you can see on the screen shoot, its all working properly according to it but the A: drive is not there.. It is enabled in the BIOS as well... very confusing! Any other suggestions.. don't really want to do a full reinstallation unless absolute necessary.. I am however going to borrow another floppy drive from a friend ...

Try switching your floppy ide cable around, I'm sure this has happened to me before and it turned out the cable can only work properly one way.

in response to the reply above usually if the IDE cable is the wrong way round the LED on the front of it will be on solidly as opposed to the flickering it does to show activity. may not apply to all floppy drives though, just a bit of extra info for you