Hi, An internal Zip is slower than a hard drive. It probably is just taking longer to boot than your used to. A good test, boot off a floppy and determine how long it takes, the Zip should be somewhere between it and the hard drive. Donald > Hi. > Two questions, for an expert in internal ide Zip's: > -1). I've tried to boot from an ide Zip, on a PC with Award > bios. For this, I did SYS from DOS over a Zip, and there appeared > IO.SYS, > MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM. But when booting from the Zip, the message > "Starting MS-DOS" appears, and stays for ever. The PC responds to > Ctrl+Alt+Del, so isn't lost. This method is on the believe that the > ide Zip is just like a floppy. What am I missing? (inserting in config > device=ASPIATAP.SYS (see below) doesn't make any difference). > Need help with PCBUILD: [log in to unmask] or http://nospin.com