Hi thanks for the response, the OS is XP home with SP2, the BIOS does see the hdd and optical drive, and gives me a choice of boot options within the BIOS, but once the pc boots up it does not see or give me the option of booting either drive. I did go to the link but I believe he is using an older desktop to install DOS on the Laptop HD. I have a newer PC with SATA drives. I do have a usb to hdd converter and am able to see it on my regular PC. I would like to be able to make the new Laptop drive bootable by utilizing my pc.
Haywire