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- How can I boot from drive B:?
Downloadable shareware: <http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/44102.html> <ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/bootutil/boot_b.zip> The included documentation says it works by writing a new boot sector on a disk in your a: drive that redirects the boot to your B: drive. (A similar utility is bboot.zip in the same directory at Garbo only.) If that doesn't work, you can always interchange your A: and B: drives by switching ribbon cables and changing the setup in your BIOS. From an article posted 27 Jan 1993 on another newsgroup: [begin quotation] Take the "ribbon" connector, as you call it, and switch them. To double-check, start at the end of the cable that connects to the motherboard or floppy controller. Follow the cable until you get to the first connector. Connect this to the drive you want to be B:. After this, there should be a few lines on the cable that get flipped left to right. (On most cables, they just cut the lines and physically reverse them. It should be quite obvious from looking at the cable.) Anyway, the connector after the pins get flipped right to left is the connector for your a: drive. [end quotation]
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