Schroyer, Dale 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!


after formatting the drive did you do a "sys"?
you have to transfer the boot files to the new disk and make a bootable
partition.
after booting from your floppy, type SYS C:.
this will transfer the proper files to allow win 95 to boot.

michael galante
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