i am trying to install win xp on a hard drive.
i took all the other hard drives out.
the drive is a 40 gig Fat32 drive. the bios sees it, but it can't boot (no OS)
i have the bios set to boot cd rom, floppy, hard drive.
I put in the win xp disk.
I get an error of no boot disk.
so I put in a dos startup floppy, and it boots off that.
it will change to the c drive and give me the dir
but if i try and change to d,e,f... I get invalid drive spec. (i was expecting the cd rom to be the d)
so I can't get to the cd rom.
but if i put the old drive in and put the win xp disk in the cd, I can read it all, I just can't install that way...
what next? I don't think making the 6 bootable floppy's for win xp setup is the way to go since the cd rom drive works, (and has been booted from in the past...)???
i took all the other hard drives out.
the drive is a 40 gig Fat32 drive. the bios sees it, but it can't boot (no OS)
i have the bios set to boot cd rom, floppy, hard drive.
I put in the win xp disk.
I get an error of no boot disk.
so I put in a dos startup floppy, and it boots off that.
it will change to the c drive and give me the dir
but if i try and change to d,e,f... I get invalid drive spec. (i was expecting the cd rom to be the d)
so I can't get to the cd rom.
but if i put the old drive in and put the win xp disk in the cd, I can read it all, I just can't install that way...
what next? I don't think making the 6 bootable floppy's for win xp setup is the way to go since the cd rom drive works, (and has been booted from in the past...)???
Check the jumpers. Are you installing it as a Pri Mas ? of is you CDROM the PriMas and the HD as a slave. ? what is your setup. I would check on the jumper on that HD. You said that it does work with your other HD. So we discard that the CDROM Unit is BAD/