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Your going to have to get a bootable CD somehow. Those upgrade CD's aren't bootable. See if you can get on from a friend, even Windows 98 will work.
evan833 said:i tried to reboot with windows 2000 pro cd but it didnt work. Should the hard drive be empty. or do I have to clear the cmos each time?
Bingo! You need to reinstall the OS in order for the drive to work on the new setup, unless you use it as a slave drive. But if you don't have any info on it you care to keep, just reinstall the OS and call it a day!evan833 said:
Would Clearing all infor off of the hard drive help?
This is killing me.
Sorry if im late but DO NOT USE THAT DELL DISC. You will be in worse shape than you are now because that disc has all the drivers for the mobo for that Dell system, not good.evan833 said:First of all. I thank you tremendously for helping me.
At this point I just want the whole thing to work. I pulled the slave hard drive off of my older computer. While it was a total backup of the Master. I would give all the info up to get this new computer working. I have been craving to build my own computer. Spending all my lunch hours peering at mother boards, processors and cases. I have finally purchased them but ran into this. So close but still So far away.
I have a supposed good copy of Windows 2000 to Install. and then upgrade to my purchased Windows XP.
I can still get an XP reinstallation cd but it was for a Dell. I think it works only for the Dell computer sold with it.
yeah, when setting up a new system, you must tell the BIOS to boot from the drive you want to boot from.........evan833 said:I have set the cd as the first boot. I thought since it went thru a sequence it would pick up the cd after seeing nothing in the floppy
even without a foppy on the computer it need the cd set to first in sequence.
I am reformatting as we speak and at 52%. I will let you know what happens.
So far so good. I will let you know thanks for all that helped me I guess that shooting spree will have to go on hold for now.
I am installing windows 2000 pro and then will upgrade using my purchased Windows XP Upgrade cd.
Congrats! Let us know how you like your new setupevan833 said:Up and running thank you for your help!
The Final answer was:
I didn't have the CD set as the first boot in the sequence of boots.
I originally didn't have a solid boot cd "Windows installation CD"