This has wandered just a bit from the original question. I'm wondering does
the machine in trouble have a Quantum Fireball hard drive? Did I miss a
response?
Ben Moore
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>I think we are now getting into the differences between a boot disk
>and plain disk. To be a boot disk, it must have a minimum of
>three files: the I/O SYStem, the DOS SYStem, and
>the COMMAND interpreter.
>
>If all three of those files are not there, then the PC will not
>boot --- UNLESS --- the floppy has a configuration file that tells
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