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by geddi2

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I have been cloning quite a few older computers using norton ghost. I have not had any problems until I got to an IBM aptiva. I keep getting a boot disk failure error and the machine will go no further. This machine runs fine in windows.
It reads floppys, the bios seems to be set correctly, and I couldn't find any mobo jumper setting that would prevent the boot. Anyone with any ideas?? I'm new at this and spent a day searching the net in hopes of finding a solution with no luck.
Thank you.

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by 1stladytech

A couple of things that you can try, check to make sure the drive is connected to the end of the cable (behind the twist). If it is not, the bios sees it as b: and will not boot from it. Check the bios also and make sure that swap floppy drives is not enabled. This configuration will work in Windows, but will not boot.

Vickie

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