-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne&Tammy <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, February 08, 1998 12:35 AM
Subject: strange hard drive problem


>Hello all,
>
>   I've just come across a problem that has me stumped.  I just took a Hard
>drive out of a brand new machine to copy its contents to another drive
>which has been corrupted, in an identical machine.
>
>   When the machine boots, it gives me a "missing operating system" error.


When you say you are copying files I am assuming you are going to hook both
hard drives up to the same IDE cable and do a copy from the valid drive to
the corrupted drive.  Have you made sure that the valid drive is set to
Master, (or Master w/Salve), and the corrupt drive to Slave?  Your BIOS will
always try to boot from your Primary IDE Master.  If both are configured as
Master it will not be able to boot, or, if your corrupt drive is set to
master it will not find the valid files on the valid slave.

Hope this helps?


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