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- From: bil@okcforum.osrhe.uoknor.edu (Bill Conner)
- Subject: Re: Boot from B: ??
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- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:56:03 GMT
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- If your floppy controller supports high density drives, all you'll
- need to do is:
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- Swap the cable from the controller so that the end that was
- plugged into A: goes into B: and B: to A:.
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- Run the CMOS setup (hit Dlete or Esc during boot, usually) and
- tell the BIOS that you've got a 1.44M drive in A:
-
- You can also try to ASSIGN drive B: to A: so that all requests
- A: are routed to B: (it might work unless the program insists
- on booting from floppy, in which case ASSIGN won't help).
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- If your bios doesn't support high density drives, replace it.
-
- Have fun ...
-
- Bill
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