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Added NT & Lost Cdrom
Name: JT Date: September 13, 1999 at 12:03:23 Pacific
Comment:
I built a PC Intel se440bx2 board, Western Digital HD, HP 8110 CD. I installed a HD from another PC running Win98. If I boot to the WD Harddrive w/NT on it everything works fine. If I boot to the 98 harddrive, I am unable to locate the CDrom. The Cdrom driver loads during Boot, and everything ran in 98 fine until the second drive and NT was added. There is an code10 error in the systems /devices on Primary and Secondary IDE as well as the floppy. I am booting by changing the Boot drive in BIOS.
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