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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 17:48:50 -0500
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Subject: Re: DR-DOS on 2nd HD
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> From:          Dan de Haan <Zeron AT Mindless DOT com>
> It is at all possable to make DR-DOS 7.03 (or any other) boot from a
> second hard drive?
> 
> I as many people just bought a new hard drive, this one (8.4G) is a
> fat32 drive and therefore you cannot boot DRDOS off of it.  and Win98 will
> not boot off a second drive.

I have a Dell OptiPlex at work and have found that if I have the CMOS setup 
for the first drive set to NONE, it will attempt to boot off the second 
hard drive if you have one. If yours does that, you may be able to shut off 
the first drive, set up DR-DOS on the second and away you go!