Hi Eric, everyone.
I admit to having a challenge picturing the problem.
If this 5.25 drive is physically installed, it should? be shoring up in
your BIOS letting you at least perhaps impact how it is designated.
Otherwise,I do agree with Eric, regardless of your boot location and
sequence, the drive should just move up a letter, if not automatically
either a or b..which may be where I am stuck.
At the most basic level, what is the drive letter for the 5.25 drive now?
Karen
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On Fri, 20 Aug 2021, Eric Auer wrote:
Hi!
In theory, when you boot from a CD containing a virtual boot
floppy image, the BIOS is supposed to move your real floppy
drive to the next drive letter, so it should be B: When you
use a MEMDISK bootable ramdisk, I expect similar effects.
In case of the BIOS method, we could add a tool which leaves
boot image mode and returns drive letters to normal, but of
course this will have side effects by "taking out" the boot
floppy (image) while you might still need files from it.
If it is a problem for you that the real floppy moves to B:,
you could also work with DOS commands to reassign letters,
but I suspect similar problems as with leaving boot image
mode, so I would recommend to stick to B: for real floppy
until you can boot FreeDOS from an actual fixed drive or
from an actual floppy.
Another method would be to use a bootable harddisk image on
the boot CD, so the real fixed disk gets moved to D: etc. and
the real floppy stays at A: all the time. Which boot images
use which style of boot image depends on which of our images
you use (we also have USB thumb drive boot images) and which
boot menu option you select :-)
Regards, Eric
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