Hi,
Many thanks to Thomas Mayer, John Steadman and Richard Glazier for your 
responses to my query. I am not sure if the computer is completing "the boot 
process",  It seems to be checking NV ram & shows a screen with lots of 
detail on :- floppy drive, amibios date, processor clock, power management, 
hard disc details, pci devices etc etc etc then bank 0  1  2  3    cpi 
function enabled CLDR etc. It then displays this message under.
Searching for boot record from floppy
CDLR is missing
Press any key to continue.
At this point I think I might have given erroneous information as the screen 
I am using seems to be clipping the edges of the display and I was guessing 
the first letter when I said "CDLR is missing" it actually displayed "LDR is 
missing. So it looks like Rick has put is finger on the problem with his 
last post and I will follow up the link given during the week-end. I know 
its an old machine but I was giving it to a friend and thought formatting 
etc might give me a little experience.
Thanks again to you all for your help - it is really appreciated.
Kind regards,
John.


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