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Yeah, unfortunately you are probably right, about changing the CD-rom out first. I just did not think something like that would cause the cd-rom to die. For future reference when I have a hhd problem I will boot w/o it connected as a diagnostic. Thank you for all of your help. My Box is now...

I have now replaced the cd-rom and it tells me that it is found. (Only after checking all of the cables) I have installed WXP successfully w/o any errors. Initially it put it on the d:, I changed it to the f: to allow for my partitions. Wow this really kicked my tail. None of this makes any...

Excellent! I did try other floppies as well. I did not think it would be the W98 boot disk. However, I tried it and the floppy was bad. When I inserted another W98 floppy it worked. Then I tried to start with cd-rom support and the cd-rom would not start. Prior to installing WXP the cd-rom...

Yes, I do see the light and hear it hit the floppy. Yet, it does not allow me to boot from my w98 boot disk and I receive the same message as before.

Yes, I got boot from atapi cd-romm : disk boot failure, Insert system disk and press enter No, when it is connected I get the same message. However,I will try again. I can't tell you how much I appreciate your time. Thanks.

If I understand properly, I disconnected the hdd's ide cable and power connector. When I did this, obviously it did not detect the hdd. It says. veryfying dmi.. boot from atapi cd-romm : disk boot failure, Insert system disk and press enter When I do this it just repeats boot from atapi...

okay under bios I changed the IDE primary Master from auto to none. That did not really do anything. I am not 100% sure I did the right thing. I was not able to boot to anything still. Thanks

Sure no problem. I will try this later on this evening. I will post again and let you know how it goes.

I am not sure that I understand. What is monkey? What do you mean infect? Please forgive my ignorance. Thanks.

Oh okay, so when it goes and fills the sector with all zeros. That is in a since resetting the hdd or that sector. How will I know if this is successful or not? Would I then be able to boot from my cd. I just do not understand what caused this to happen. I have probably formatted 100 hdds and it...

No, I do not think so. I have done so many different things that I have lost track. I will try that tonight. The problem is I do not want to purchase a new hdd and have the same problem occur. I have never seen this happen. If it does boot what should I do or what does that mean? Thank you very...

All right, this is one of the oddest things I have ever seen. I had a w2k box with a 2gig partition. With the software that I use this partion is to small. I decided to install WXP PRO. When I did I war partially complete and I received a character map error. It said cannot install character...