Hello helpful people: When trying to boot from a hard disk, I get a message "boot 2". This comes right after the "verifying DMI pool" message. If I press any keyboard key, I get a few dots after the "boot 2" message, followed by another "boot 2" message. The drive should boot to dos 6.22. --I fdisked and formatted the drive --I reinstalled dos 6.22 files -- I ran scandisk on the drive--did not find a problem. --When booting from the A: drive, I can access drive C:, and run a dir command. --I have another exact same hard drive, which boots up ok, and the jumper settings on each hard drive are the same. I use removable hard drive bays, and I even switched them to make sure there was no problem with one of them. --I sysed the drive using a dos 6.22 boot disk. --CMOS settings is on autodetect, and if I put the exact same make and model of drive in, the drive boots up ok. --If the drive is defective, how come scandisk finds no problem? --Hard disk is a quantum fireball 3.5Gig Thanks for any ideas. Brad Britton ----- **Need help with PCBUILD mailing list? Send an Email to:** Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]> or Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>