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Hi,
	I am having a problem booting up XT's on a diskette.

	The XT's hard disk has been formatted with IBM 3.1 .  They boot up on 
the hard disk and perform o.k.  When I boot up on the floppy with an IBM 3.1 
diskette (or for that matter msdos 3.21, msdos 3.3), it boots o.k., will see
the hard drive but when you DIR C: it reports: file not found.

	We have at least 4 machines acting this way.  We have another machine
formated with IBM 3.1 that works o.k i.e. shows the root directory when booted
on a:.  These 5 machines are relatively old with 1985 BIOS's.  The one that
works has the same BIOS as one of the one's that doesn't work.  All machines
have 20M hard disks.  I compared (using PCTOOLS) the two system hidden files
and command.com, there was no differences.  The partition table looks o.k.
The boot sector looks o.k.  I have checked for viruses.

	If you boot up on A: (on a problem machine) change to C: make a
sub-directory then look for that directory entry, you find it at sector 70,
which is in the middle of the second fat.

	A way to solve my problem is to reformat the hard drive with msdos 3.3,
but I would like to know what is causing the problem.

	Thanks for any help.

		John Edwards

		You can mail me on REGY106@CANTERBURY.AC.NZ