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From: Roger Hamlett
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2000 00:00

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Steve wrote in message <_7aJ4.2070$GP3.11890@typhoon.nyroc.rr.com>...
>Yes will boot to dos. No twist.
This is your problem. The first floppy, should have the twist. I
suspect you may have the BIOS set to 'swap A/B' (an option for this
exists in most BIOS's), so you actually have drive 'B' attached, but
being seen as 'A' from DOS or W9x. In NT, the drivers ignore the BIOS,
and are finding no drive A attached...

Best Wishes

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From: "Roger Hamlett" <roger@ttelmah.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: floppy drive error
Date: 2000/04/13
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