Most likly because the second computer is told to boot first from the hard disks first then if it doesn't find anything move on. You'd have to change the bios settings to fix that and each computers bios is differnt (for the most part)
I have two computers both running Win 98 SE one computer will boot with the boot floppy the other computer will not boot using the same floppy and CD. anybody got any ideas why? Neither computer would boot with just the CD
Most likly because the second computer is told to boot first from the hard disks first then if it doesn't find anything move on. You'd have to change the bios settings to fix that and each computers bios is differnt (for the most part)

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