booting with win2k pro CD.

[o770]

why cant my system boot from the win2k pro cd? the help .txt files say the machine can boot using the CD but mine cant. yes, i have set the cd-rom unity as the first one.
thanks.

[Vryce]

If your bios supports booting from cd, then you should be greeted with a press any key to boot from CD message

check your cd to see if it can create the setup/boot disks (4 of them), if it can't you are missing some parts of the cd you need to be able to boot from it

I encountered a cd like this once, but it was a borrowed copy (couldn't find mine readily, and needed to make the setup disks) and I don't think it was legit..

[Microsoft]

you have to set the boot sequence in the bios

[Thelemac]

I had problems doing that on a fresh drive...if you haven't formatted it yet, you might want to do that.

[turd]

also check and make sure that your bios does not require, in addition to 1st boot order, that you have a selection for " boot other device|enable"

[o770]

it must only be some problem with the CD. i got another one (W2K server) and it booted fine. ill try to get another one, thanks.

[Oni]

Unfortunately, my Windows2000 CD isn't bootable. Its an MSDN version.

[Microsoft]

all my w2k cds have been bootable