prob seting up win 2k pro

[R.Rabbit]

i slapped in a new hd(80gig SE), change the boot order to c,cdrom,a; create a new partion, format it to nfts, load win2k on it, then when its done it says you pc wil restart to continue with configuration, so it restarts i switch to a,c,scsi, then it says disc boot failure insurt a disc yada yada, WTF! man i dont really know **** about n e of this, im a self tought geek
please help!
R.Rabbit

 

[Heat]

I'm not sure...

I'd try it again with a boot disk. http://www.bootdisk.com

 

[Neville]

Rabbit, remove the ls-120 if you have one. Also check your partitions and maje sure they bootable, you also have a good MBR

 

[EeyoreX]

is the hard drive on a RAID controller maybe? If so, when doing the install you need to press F6 when asked and install drivers for the RAID controller...

\Dan

 

[R.Rabbit]

Rabbit, remove the ls-120 if you have one. Also check your partitions and maje sure they bootable, you also have a good MBR

i dont know wat a ls120 is and this isnt im my sig rig(hehe it rymes) its in an old k-62 rig and i have no idea what the mobo is exept that its via, no its not in raid, and how can i check if my partion is bootable?

 

[WyrmMaster]

You dont need to use a bootdisk. Try setting teh boot order to harddisk 0, harddisk 0, harddisk 0. Thats the way i have mine set, i only change it if i need to boot from a cd.

 

[R.Rabbit]

my bios isnt like that, you chose the drive in order i gues wat your trying to say is hdd only right?, i already tried and it wont work, i ran disk check through dos i've done every thing i can thing of and nothin works it just always says boot disc failure insirt system disc!

 

[R.Rabbit]

you think i should reset the cmos? if so how?

 

[thefly]

make sure the partition is active.

 

[WyrmMaster]

Hmm, so it is set to boot from the cd first, but it says boot disk failure.

I would try reinstalling windows again, see if it works then, it may have just screwed up the install somehow. And what i mean is just set the first, second, and third boot device all to the same thing.

 

[R.Rabbit]

yah i kinda knew what you meant, iv'e already reinstalled it but the same thing, thefly how can i check/make the partion active?

 

[R.Rabbit]

well i just got my rig in so ill be working on it for about 3 weeks till everything it together, so till then i wont be worried about it, but thanks for all of your replies!

 

[outhouse]

one thing that held me back was a bios update dealing with with the nt kernal might be worth checking