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 List<[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >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 >[log in to unmask] > >Which is worse, to spend more than you expected or less than you should? >Zig Ziglar > > PCBUILD only works if you contribute. Send your messages > to be posted to: [log in to unmask] > Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com PCBUILD mailing list is brought to you by: The NOSPIN Group http://nospin.com