XP Pro, Service Pack 1. Two diskette drives
A: = Standard internal 1X
B: = USB 2X drive.

Often, when I try to expand executable compressed diskette archives,
such as: ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs...rs/39y4864.exe
to the USB drive, with the command line: "39Y4864 B:"

After paging through 15 pages of copyright notices, when it's supposed
to start writing to the diskette, it pops up a warning message:

Window title:
16 bit MS-DOS Subsystem

Contents:
C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe - 39y4864.exe b:
An application has attempted to directly access the hard disk, which
cannot be supported. This may cause the application to function
incorrectly. Choose 'Close' to terminate the application.
http://webpages.charter.net/dwarner2/error.jpg

There are two buttons, "Close" and "Ignore" Both cause the unpacker
to fail with a diskette error.

This doesn't occur every time., When I tried it again to capture the
text, it woked fine..

It also happens every time with virtual diskette drives created by
VFD, if they're at drive letters above B:

I never had this problem with Windows 2000. Is there any way to keep
XP from mistaking floppy drives as hard drives when running old DOS
apps?




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