Ok, here’s the deal. I don’t have an internal A: drive but I do have the problem of everytime I want to save something to disk from let’s say an icon on my desktop I can’t. But I do have an external floppy. So my ? is how do I change my external from E: drive to the 3 1/2 floppy A: drive or is there some other way of saving to the external when I right click on my icon? Basiclly I want to change it to the A: drive anyway. I went to system and clicked on the devices tab and then went to the drives area but it wouldn’t let me change it. Is there some other way?
Just to make sure we are talking about the same thing :
When you right-click on a file in Explorer there is an option “Send To” and inside that is a link to the floppy drive ( A: ).
What you what is the ability to copy to the Zip drive the same way. If so this is what you have to do :
Go to the sendto folder in your windows directory. (If you have a Windows NT system it will probably be inside the winnt\profiles directory.) Inside the sendto directory there will be a shortcut to the floppy drive. What you want to do is create a shortcut to the zip drive in this directory. This will then show up in the “Send To” list.
And if this is what you meant I’ve just lost 10 minutes of my life.
I’m on a computer that is partially disabled so I can’t try my advice but if you do Start/Help then switch to the ‘Index’ tab and type ‘drive’ there’s a topic for changing a drive letter. Hopefully that will give you what you want but ‘A’ might be a restricted drive letter because I believe the floppy drives have their own controller/bus device and A & B might not be available.
If you can’t assign the external floppy as the ‘A’ drive then you’ll want to add a ‘Copy to E’ command on the right click/send to menu. I think there’s a way to do that but I’m not currently sure how.
A friend just sent me a link on Adding to your Send To menu. This will give you the a step-by-step walkthrough on how to do it.
Basically, the items that appear in that menu are kept in a folder at C:\Windows\Send To\ (assuming your copy of Windows is installed on the C:\ drive in the default directory). All you have to do is create a shortcut of the drive that you want in the \Send To folder and you should be good to go.
Eh, isnt that what I said earlier?
Sure enough - I should read more thoroughly.
thanks peeps…I have a crappy computer that I can’t believe gateway sent me…I didn’t even come w/ an A: drive. I didn’t think that they made computers w/o a floppy drive…guess they do though