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On 26 Feb 98 at 2:00, michael wrote:
> i dig out my trusty emergency boot disk to format the new drive and lo
> and behold, my machine boots from c:.
> i reboot about 20 times with the same result, box won't boot from a:.
There should be a setting in the BIOS for drive boot order. If
this is set to "C:,A:", then the only time the machine will ever boot
from a floppy is if it doesn't find an active partition on the first
hard drive. Switch it to "A:,C:"; it will take a couple seconds
longer to boot, but you'll be sure of being able to boot from a
floppy when you need to.
[You should have FDISK and FORMAT on your C: drive as part of
Win95, so it's unlikely that you really "need" to boot from the
floppy right now....]
David G
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