Buried in a box somewhere I have the source code listing for the (floppy) Disk Operating System (and it was a real programmable DOS) that was in the external floppy disk for ... Amiga? or something ... you could actually program the disk to do interesting things not intended by the OS makesr...

I remember NewDos80 for the TRS80 used to do cute things - such as keep all the batch files in a single file to save space, and run and identify SD, etc (5") disks with differing standards of tracks (and numbers of tracks) including custom ones which had a mix od densities on the disk, and many other wonderful things.... often wonder what happened to the source code for that....

Geoff, My message above about the order of the partitions is what you will have to live with, I'm sorry - you can shunt other drives around, but I know of no other way to set up the order of the disks. It's to do with some very basic things in the design of the HW & SW of DOS/Windoze9x... IDE channels & all that esoteric stuff...

If the 2nd HD is to be a recognised Windows partition, you will just have to live with it being D drive, and change all your links.... Windows will search for the correct place, but doesn't always get it right, so if it doesn't, just say NO, then manually modify the link.

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt to prove it... etc

Robin