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Floppy drive on Windows 3.x

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First post, by DOS_Boy

Posted on 2008-12-08, 02:28

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Wrote by Dominus on his "Windows 3.x installation guide": - When you mount a floppy drive to a:\ it doesn't show in the Windows file manager and in the "run" dialog you can't select it either. But you can enter the path (for example "a:\setup.exe") and it works ok. When you don't have anything mounted to a:\ the a:\ drive shows up in Windows 3.1x. Strange but true.

It just happened to me in Windows 3.11 FWG, and it's really weird. Is there anything I can do to fix this?

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Reply 1 of 6, by Qbix

Posted on 2008-12-08, 08:22

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what is the problem ?
i mean it doesn't work. we know of it. There is a workaround provided. What is more ?

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Reply 2 of 6, by IIGS_User

Posted on 2008-12-08, 16:45

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Dominus wrote:
But you can enter the path (for example "a:\setup.exe") and it works ok.

DOS_Boy wrote:
It just happened to me in Windows 3.11 FWG, and it's really weird. Is there anything I can do to fix this?

Not?

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Reply 3 of 6, by DOS_Boy

Posted on 2008-12-09, 00:14

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alright, i got the message. i'm sorry, i didn't mean to start a war in here just because of this issue. I was just curious, that's all, no need to throw rocks on me...

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Reply 4 of 6, by IIGS_User

Posted on 2008-12-09, 15:14

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Oh sorry, we're not at war yet. 😉

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Reply 5 of 6, by wd

Posted on 2008-12-09, 15:25

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WWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

War it is.
We're at war.
Now and for ever.
Or at least until the next posting or so.

Reply 6 of 6, by MiniMax

Posted on 2008-12-09, 15:34

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