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Originally Posted by bojan
Hi guys... maybe someone could help me with my problem 
What is so special about HD and boot sectors on them? Could flash card have one? and why flash card as it is now does not want to boot? And, what can I do about it? |
Hi
When you set up the replacement I imagine you used fdisk. Did you remember to set it active. I don't know the PCM1A card but I would imagine it contains some hardware, programmed to make it appear as a conventional HDD
Other than this the boot sector contains nothing more than an address in the first couple of bytes to point to the boot loader program a little further down the sector which gives the particulars of where to find the operating system.
The HDD 1st cylinder has two sides. The 1st physical cylinder contains the partition table (and some other material often used by OEM to do things at start up ). The other side of the cylinder contains the boot sector (1st logical sector) followed by the FAT table (2 copies) and directories. The size and type of these is set from the partition table.
I have did have Windows 95 on Floppy disks but I only have it archived on CD now. I once had a laptop that only had the Floppy disk drive and it was a real pain to load with Windows 95!
Barry