Greetings-

Those that said that a drive with NT 4.0 on it should boot to a floppy were
correct- I forgot to mention that I had loaded a beta copy of NT 5.0 over
the v4.0, and *it* definitely would not let me boot to a floppy. The bios
boot sequence was set to "A then C", but the NT boot manager still came up
(even with a bootable floppy in the drive).

I slagged the Winnt5 directory and wiped out as many of the files in the
root directory as NT5 would allow while it was running, and wound up with
the machine attempting to boot to a seriously compromised copy of NT 4.0
Server (even with the floppy in the drive...).

So, I reinstalled Server 4.0, and lo- the machine *would* boot to the
floppy. Then I did my format and installed just enough DOS on the HD to
allow it to boot (this disk is being used to test a mobo with a possible
dead floppy controller).

Well, the machine booted from this drive, but a funny thing happened-  I
got the "starting Windows 95" message and the Win95 splash screen came up.
The drive had, at one time, had 95 on it, and apparently something from
that managed to escape the format.

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know how that might have happened and
how I can kill those files? I admit that I've forgotten the DOS command for
revealing the hidden files on a drive <G>.

Thanks-

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Rick Lindstrom
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Tallahassee, FL
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