luongt@tekig6.PEN.TEK.COM (Lu T.) (08/02/90)
Hi,
I have 2 IBM PCs, one portable has 20MB HD and one desktop has
10MB HD, both of them have only one 360K floppy drive and one HD
default to C and they both work fine with DOS 3.30.
Yesterday I swapped the HD (with controller card), and when I
powered it up, it said "Bad or missing Command Interpreter" so I
booted it with floppy and now it recognizes HD as drive D instead
of C. If I try to go to drive C then it says "Not ready error
reading drive C". I didn't know what I did wrong so I swapped
HD back to original PC, but it still gives me the same error.
What did I do wrong? Any help will be deeply appreciated.
Thank much.
luongt@tekig6.pen.tek.com
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Lu Tran luongt@tekig6.pen.tek.com (503) 627-3077
------------------------------------------------------------------------------mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) (08/02/90)
In article <6689@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM> luongt@tekig6.PEN.TEK.COM writes: > > Yesterday I swapped the HD (with controller card), and when I > powered it up, it said "Bad or missing Command Interpreter" so I > booted it with floppy and now it recognizes HD as drive D instead > of C. If I try to go to drive C then it says "Not ready error > reading drive C". I didn't know what I did wrong so I swapped > HD back to original PC, but it still gives me the same error. I see two main possibilities here: 1. The drive is configured as drive 1 instead of drive 0 (jumpers or dip switches on the drive for this), or 2. The drive is plugged into the wrong connector on the controller cable, assuming you have one of those "twist" cables. My cable has a connector for drive 0, and another for drive 1, and BOTH drive are jumpered identically (drive 0?) .. the cable twist (some strands of the ribbon cable are twisted between the drive 0/1 connectors) does the drive select for me. -- ___Mark S. Lord__________________________________________ | ..uunet!bnrgate!bmerh724!mlord | Climb Free Or Die (NH) | | Ottawa, Ontario. 613-763-7482 | Personal views only. | |________________________________|________________________|