My A: drive is actually being seen by the system as B: drive and vice-versa

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My A: drive is actually being seen by the system as B: drive and vice-versa

Explanation:
You have two floppy disks in the system. One of them is supposed to be A: and the other B:, but they show up within the system as reversed--A: is B: and B: is A:. Both drives still work, however.
Diagnosis:
On a new system the usual culprit is configuring the drives incorrectly. On an existing one, it is far more likely that the drives were just set up incorrectly.
Recommendation:

Make sure that you connected the cable properly to the two drives. The drive to be A: goes at the end of the cable, and the drive to be B: stays in the middle of the table.
Watch out for the "Floppy Disk Swap" BIOS setting, which intentionally flips A: and B:, to allow you to switch the two drives without opening the case. Of course if this BIOS setting is enabled when you don't want it to be, then the A: and B: drives will be reversed.
Windows NT does not properly recognize the floppy swap setting. If you use it then NT may simply ignore it and cause your A: and B: drives to not be reversed when you want them to be.
Make sure that both disks are set up properly in the BIOS setup program.
Less likely, but still possible, is a problem with the floppy disk or the floppy disk controller. Troubleshoot them here and here respectively.

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