Im starting to think its got something to do with the hard drive formatting now. I disabled every partition in early startup except the new one, selected boot without start up sequence and still get the "no disk present in device DFO"
Im thinking of trying a new drive on the csppc scsi port. Its faster anyway. Any other ideas?
Oh if I pull the drive and put a new one in, will my emergency disk still boot 3.9 from cd to install clean?
I'm reading that a valid OS3.9 boot partition needs to be in the first 4GB of the HD space.