Vista reads my DVD ROM drive as an A Floppy drive

[Superman]

Anyone know why this would happen? I don't even have an A drive.

[Executor32]

Is it literally reading it as a floppy drive (labelled "Floppy Disk Drive" in My Computer), or is it just using drive letter A?

[Superman]

It's reading it as a floppy drive. What you said. Not just the letter A.

[Executor32]

That is really bizarre. What I'd try is to open the Device Manager in the Control Panel, then check under both "DVD/CD-ROM drives" and "Floppy disk drives" for the drive in question, right-click on it, click Uninstall, then restart your computer. If it's just some kind of driver mishap, I'd think that would fix it.

[Ryushikaze]

Is it actually reading the DVD drive as the floppy, or is it just a phantom floppy? I have that issue with my computer every so often, and it's just an annoyance. In either case, I think Executor's solution should work.

[Superman]

It's not a phantom. Vista really thinks that it's a floppy A drive. I've also disabled the A drive in the BIOS, but it's still doing it.

I tried exe's solution, and the device manager is listing it the ROM drive as "HL DT ST DVD-RAM GSA-HS4L ATA Device." It's also reading a "Floppy Disk Drive" and "Floppy Disk Controller." Should I just uninstall everything that refers to a floppy drive?

[Feil]

Might be a driver issue. In device manager, under DVD/CDROM drives, find the device - probably the one you quoted there - and rightclick it and open its properties. Go to Driver and select Driver Details. If it is using a floppy disk driver, it will show up there. You can change the driver using the Update Drivers button in the Driver tab and using the manual option.

[darkjedi521]

Did you disable the drive or the controller in the BIOS? A lot of my machines think there is a floppy drive cause the controller is still enabled, even if the drive itself is set to disabled in the BIOS.