Hi,
        An internal Zip is slower than a hard drive.  It probably is
just taking longer to boot than your used to.  A good test, boot off a
floppy and determine how long it takes, the Zip should be somewhere
between it and the hard drive.

Donald


>         Hi.
>         Two questions, for an expert in internal ide Zip's:
>         -1). I've tried to boot from an ide Zip, on a PC with Award
> bios. For this, I did SYS from DOS over a Zip, and there appeared
> IO.SYS,
> MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM. But when booting from the Zip, the message
> "Starting MS-DOS" appears, and stays for ever. The PC responds to
> Ctrl+Alt+Del, so isn't lost. This method is on the believe that the
> ide Zip is just like a floppy. What am I missing? (inserting in config
> device=ASPIATAP.SYS (see below) doesn't make any difference).
>


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