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First post, by Doppler

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Is it possible to disable or hide A: and B: drive letters in MS-DOS so that they couldnt be accessed and seen in file managers like norton/volkov commander?
I know it's just a visual preference, but still I dont use any diskette drives in my computer so I would be happy to disable these letters 😀

Reply 4 of 6, by Cyberdyne

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Sometimes, even DOS is badly coded, and even BIOS is badly coded, and those A and B drive are hard to die form your list.

I am aroused about any X86 motherboard that has full functional ISA slot. I think i have problem. Not really into that original (Turbo) XT,286,386 and CGA/EGA stuff. So just a DOS nut.

Reply 5 of 6, by Kamerat

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Doppler wrote:

Thanks! it works! 😁

Nice! 😁 Used it myself to remove ghost floppy drives from Windows 98SE, just ran it from autoexec.bat before Windows booted.

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Reply 6 of 6, by Doppler

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Reporting back with more tests.

Unfortunately it works only under volkov commander. In Dos Navigator and others similar file managers, the A letter is still visible, no matter what. Look like I'll have to live with it 😀 But anyway, thanks one more time!