Re: Booting from floppy or CD

I have since discovered the problem is because of the settings for IDE
configuration. They
are set for Enhanced Mode P-ATA+S-ATA.. Changing those to Compatible Mode
and
P-ATA Only does permit booting from a DOS floppy (or CD), but does not
provide
access to the SATA drives. Don


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"Don Madsen" <donald-madsen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My system has a motherboard which has C: on a Parallel Ide drive and
other
logical drive on two SATA drives. The Primary Ide Master and one CD/DVD
drive as Primary Slave. The Secondary Master Primary is a second CD/DVD
drive. One SATA drive is configures as the Third Ide and the other as the
Fourth Ide. This is acceptable for Windows XP and Window 2000, bur not
for
Legacy Windows systems.The problem is that the system will not boot from
a
bootable Windows floppy or CD. This is not usually a problem, however,
an
Acronis bootable floppy will also not boot and this is
desired for protection in the case of a catastrophic failure. Some
bootable
CDs, e.g, a Windows XP installation CD will boot. Is there a simple
solution to this problem? Don (dhmadsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx)



If your system will not boot from a Windows floppy boot disk
then you need to tell us how you made this boot disk, how far
the boot process goes and what messages you see on the
screen. Without this information it is impossible to provide
any advice.




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