Hello,

You need to check for a (autoexec.bat and config.sys file) located on
the boot disk and copy that over to you c: drive... that should make it
boot without the boot disk

Good Luck]

-Jose Cheng


>From: Harvey Rose <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion
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>Subject: [PCBUILD] Booting From C drive
>Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 03:15:45 -0600
>
>I'm working on a Packard Bell Legend 416SX with a Segate 125Meg hard
drive.
>When I go to boot the computer it gives me the message "Diskette read
>failure - Press F1 to retry or F2 for setup. The hard drive has stacker
>running as a drive compressor.  I got it to boot and then made a boot
disk.
>Now when I place the diskette in drive A it boots every time. Can
anyone
>tell me how to boot from C drive? The CMOS doesn't have the option of
>booting from C or A so I'm assumming that it looks at A first then C by
>default
>The BIOS is Phoenix 80386 ROM Version 1.10.
>
>
>
>Harvey Rose
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>
>Which is worse, to spend more than you expected or less than you
should?
>Zig Ziglar
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