Yes. Check out these two policy settings:
User Configuration | Administrative Templates | Windows Components | Windows Explorer | Hide these specified drives in My Computer
And
User Configuration | Administrative Templates | Windows Components | Windows Explorer | Prevent access to drives from My Computer
Floppy drives are not as necessary as they once were because the industry is moving toward storage media that can hold more data, such as CDs.The CD-ROM or optical drive. Floppy disk drives have stagnated in development; any off-the-shelf drive these days will support the highest commonly available capacity, 1.44 MB. Many people these days don't even use floppy disks.
Memory Diagnostics (mdsched.exe). -------------------------- You are better testing memory outside of your OS. Use a program such as Memtest86 from a bootable medium (such as a floppy, CDRom, or bootable flash drive)
Use a floppy drive, drag and drop the files you want. The space you have though will be extremely limited, as your using a floppy drive
No Macintosh has included a floppy drive since the release of the iMac G3 in 1998. If you need to use a floppy disk, you will have to purchase an external USB drive.
The Mac
The Dell Inspiron is not equipped with an internal or external floppy drive. If you want to use floppies with it, you'll have to purchase an external USB floppy drive.
Drive B is reserved for use with a(n additional) floppy drive
No. Zip drives cannot read floppy disks, and cannot be used on a traditional floppy controller.
The B: drive was originally used back in the days when having two floppy drives was common. A: and B: are reserved for floppy drive use.
Flip the laptop over so that the rubber feet are facing up. Remove the screw in the center of the laptop with the picture of a lock near it. This is the only thing keeping the cdrom drive from sliding out of the laptop. If it doesn't come out easily, you may need to power up the laptop, open up the cdrom tray, power off the laptop (while the cdrom tray is still open) then repeat procedure above - however, you'll now have the cdrom tray to use as a handle to pull out the entire cdrom drive.
Drive B is reserved for use with a(n additional) floppy drive
Use an external USB floppy drive. If you MUST have internal.... if you're good and creative you -might- be able to disassemble an external USB floppy drive and mount it like an internal drive. Alternatively, you could hunt down an old LS-120 "superdisk" drive. Its an IDE drive (40 pin connector, like your hdd or cdrom) that reads floppies (in addition to high-capacity proprietary disks)