The two drives could be incompatible.  I have run across a few drives that
just won't run together.

Steve Link
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-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Dias <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, March 30, 1998 4:47 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Boot Sector Error


>Helped a friend add a second hard drive to his Packard Bell 486/66 and ran
>into trouble getting the right jumper settings for these old drives. His
>original Seagate 425mb IDE with Win95 on it is master, (one primary dos
>partition, marked active) and a Quantum LPS 245mb we added as slave.
Finally
>got slave jumpered right, right settings in setup, fdisked (extended dos
>partition w/ logical drive D:) and formatted. Scandisk reports no problems.
>
>Problem: Every time we reboot, we get an error message "fixed drive has no
>boot sector". Pressing F1 to continue, machine will boot to Win95 on C:,
>both drives are recognized and useable in Windows.
>Can anyone tell me what that error message means? Did I miss something
>here...should I have "sysd" the slave?
>Slave was working fine in another machine and was formatted /u prior to
>removal. Thanks for any ideas.
>
>Steve Dias