There is one last step to perform.  The primary partition on the new C drive
must be set active.  This procedure can only be done when the hard drive is in
the C position, so it is the last step in the whole procedure.

1.  Boot from a Win95 floppy startup disk that contains the FDISK file.
2.  At the A prompt, type FDISK (and press enter).
3.  In addition to the normal FDISK menu, you should see a message that says
something like:  "Warning! No Partitions are Active!"
4.  Choose #2 (Set partition active)
5.  When asked which partition you want active, choose #1.
6.  Reboot.  All *should* be well.

Roxanne Pierce
R2 Systems, San Diego
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On Monday, March 09, 1998 05:17, Schroyer, Dale [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
wrote:
>         I have a problem that is stumping me. I replaced a friends hard
> drive using the procedure recently posted on this list. The short
> version, set new disk as slave, fdisk to partition, format, xcopy for
> the files (he is running win95). Now here is the strange part. When
> trying to boot from the new disk (now set as master and primary
> partition set active) just when it should say starting windows 95 it
> says instead "Disk IO error, Replace the disk and strike a key when
> ready". I have never seen this before!
>         If I boot from the Win95 startup floppy I can see the drive and
> all the files. If I boot from the old hard drive I can see the new disk
> and all the files. I can run programs from the new disk. I just can't
> boot Win95 from it.
>         I tried looking at several hard drive manufacturers sites but
> none describe this problem.
>         If it helps the new disk is a 2.5 GB Seagate.
>         Help!!