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Jer, If you want the hd auto-mounted by the BindDrivers command, (so you don't have to do give an explicit mount command for it) it must be mounted and preped as RES2: For example, I have NO mountlist entry for dh0:, I only have an entry for the 2nd partition on that drive. The way I'm set up, DH0: is only 1 cylinder long. That's 34K and I keep just a couple of files there…like the FFS driver file and a short script file. The other 600 some odd cylinders are the second partition on the drive and are formatted as an FFS filesystem. That gets me off the floppy very quick. I do a binddrivers, I move to dh0: and do the mount of the 2nd partition by using the files on that small partition and then move to the 2nd partition for the rest of the startup. Your method works, but you have to do an explicit mount for your drive after the binddrivers…thus incuring additional access of your floppy files to mount the drive. They bonus you get is 3 additional cylinders for your use (the 2 cylinders that PREP takes and the 1 cylinder automounted partition).