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From: James Bannon
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 1997 00:00

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In article <671g0l$7h4$1@news2.sirius.com>, "Bill R. Adams" 
>>Chris Kennington (newshound)                        01491 574065
>
>I received nothing with DIR C: /a.  I think I'm going to Plan
>B, that is reload the DOS files, since many of my lost files are on
>backups.  
>
>However, I've run into a problem here as well.  DOS Setup disk keeps
>instructing me to load the disk in (3.5") Drive A, which I cannot do
>since the files are on Real Floppies (the 5"x5" variety), which fit my
>Drive B.  How do I convince Setup to load from Drive B? Thanks for all
>your help. - b

-- 
James Bannon

Try going into CMOS and setting the machine up to boot from drive B:, i.e., put
drive B: first in the drive check sequence.
This usually works.

Cheers.

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