Re: Booting from floppy

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Dave Patrick wrote:
Try another floppy? www.bootdisk.com

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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