Re: Booting from floppy

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This has to be a hardware issue since the fixed disks and or the contents on
them is not in the picture if the first boot device is bootable and contains
an operating system.

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Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
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"Larry" wrote:
| Dave--
|
| Did that. Win98SE bootable disk, MaxBlast bootable disk, etc., makes no
| difference.
|
| While the HDD with Win2K is attached to the computer, no floppy disk
| (not even subbing a different floppy drive) will boot, except disk 1 of
| the Win2K boot floppy disk set. Neither will a CD boot in DOS, such as
| Partition Magic CD, ASUS utilities, etc.
|
| Removing the hard drive or subbing one with, for instance, ME--voila, it
| will boot from the floppy or CD.
|
| Thanks,
| Larry


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