1) HD setup
I recently upgraded to a new computer and decided to put my old components
to another computer. All the parts worked before upgrading, but I had
problem getting the system to recognize my HD as bootable. After passing
all the IDE, SCSI bios stuffs, it prompts the following message:

"Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter."

The drive (IBM 8GB) is set as master and is the only drive on master IDE. I
then put it on the working computer FDISK/formatted it from scratch and
installed Win98SE to it without any problems. When putting it back, I still
couldn't reach DOS with the same message. It occurred to me right before
going to bed that I might forgot to set it to active since FDISK didn't
allow active other than C:\. I might need to use Partition Magic to do
this. Besides this, do I miss anything else? BTW, I don't plan to put a
floppy to it although I use the floppy from the other to do setup only. I'm
planning to create a bootable CD in case I cannot boot from HD. If  you
know a good source on how to create Bootable CD, please let me know too.

The drive has 3 partitions. the 1st one is FAT, the other 2 are in FAT32.
System Info: Celeron 300A, Abit BH6, 128MB PC100 SDRAM, Creative Labs TNT
Video card, SoundBlaster Live, Iomega Buz (use its Ultra SCSI card only),
Intel ISA Ethernet card.

2) HD accessibility under DOS
On the other system, I have total 9 partitions C to K. If I boot the system
from floppy (created with Win98SE). I cannot access all my partitions. I
can only get from C to I (or H?). One of them is a RAM disk with DOS in it,
the other is CD-ROM drive if I choose to have CD-ROM support. One partition
is NTFS so I assume this is not accessible in DOS. Is there a way that I
can access my other partitions (in FAT32)?



Thanks for any suggestions,


Changhsu Liu

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