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Gayle, I rechecked config.sys to see what I used. DEVICE=C;\EMM386.SYS /F=NONE /K=0 /B=FFFF /E=CA00-CBFF,D000-D7FF /R=AUTO HIDOS=ON SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:/ \P /E:512 HIDEVICE=C:\ANSI.SYS INSTALL=C:\SHARE.EXE /L:500 HIBUFFERS=10 BREAK=ON FILES=120 PCPrefs has the Janus segment set to D000, Shadowed=Yes, Color disabled, Mono disabled, Default mode is Color. Is the controller error you got on the hard drive controller or is that for the BB floppy controller? If it's the floppy controller you may have a problem with the BB 's floppy controller chip or something wrong with the floppy drive setup or cabling. If the error is for the hard drive controller, then you may have something not setup right in the CMOS or the drive jumpers may not be set correctly. I also don't understand the /A=1000-FFFF instruction. You might be screwing something up with that and it shouldn't be needed. You ought to consider not using exanded memory unless you absolutely need it for a program. Nowadays most programs are written to use extended memory. By using /F=NONE /K=0 you tell EMM386.SYS not to allocate a page frame for expanded memory which will free up 64K in the UMB. It may be that by allocating the page frame you don't have any UMBs left for the hard drive controller ROM which usually has to locate itself in the UMBs. That could explain the controller error if it's for the hard drive controller. I would recommend you try the setup I use without expanded memory and see how things work.