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Ok I was switching HD's from ME to 98, lol. It did'my work so good so I wanted to switch back but the BIOS settings wont work, and when I try to boot it wants me to put the boot disk in(floppy) and I do and it starts to work in DOS with the floppy but then none of the things on the disk work I cant get to my desktop although if I switch drives when the boot disk is done I still have all my files. I have tried a LOT of BIOS settings and even the default ones and none worked. I need help bad, respond please.

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Not sure what you are doing either. Hook up the Drive you want, and leave the other one off for now. Make sure the Drive you are using has the Jumper set to single or master, and the bios is set to fail safe setting. Plug the computer into house current , and boot up. Should work.

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That sounds like the disk drive does not have a primary partition flagged as Active, so the BIOS Boot Strap Loader can not find the active partition on the drive to boot from. So it wants you to boot from the diskette. Normally, if you boot from the diskette to DOS, you can run DOS's FDISK and look at the Primary Master drive and see if its Primary partition is set Active, and will allow you to set it active if it is not.

It is also possible your disk drive has had its boot sector damaged and it no longer contains a valid Boot Loader (or Master Boot Record). The BIOS Boot Strap Loader will not load the disk drives Boot Loader from the first sector if it is not valid. This can be fixed on the Primary Master drive by booting with the Windows ME Startup diskette and from DOS running the command FDISK /mbr to write a new Master Boot Record on the disk drive.

It also sounds like you expect the DOS you boot from the diskette to somehow start Windows for you?

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Still nothing

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