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 > Last weekend I took my computer over to a friends
 > house who is very knowledgable with computers.  We
 > decided to install a second hard drive into my
 > machine.  We got the new drive formated and working
 > just as fine as can be.  Seems everyone thing was
 > going too good.  Problem came when we installed and
 > connected both drives.  When we booted the machine we
 > got a "system disk error" message and could not
 > figuare out why.  If we disconnected drive D then it
 > booted fine, when we made drive D the master drive, it
 > also booted fine.
There will be a hard switch on the drive that marks it as master or slave.  One has to be master and others are slave disks > The original is a Conners and the > new one is a MaxStor.  We followed directions, > including the jumpers, and remapped all of our steps. > But the crazy thing is that when I boot the machine, > with both dives connected, and I get the error, all I > have to do is to hit a key a few times and then it > continues to boot.  After that everything is normal. > I can access both drives 




and do anything that I want. > I know that the error message means that the computer > can't locate DOS but why after hitting a few keys it > finds it.

Is the Dos directory in the Path statement?




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