I recently salvaged an old Gateway 2000 off of a friend.
So i take it home, hook it up and viola...
-Video Card Loads
-Bios Starts
-Detects Ram
-Detects Keyboard
-Detects Mouse
-Detects Floppy
INSERT BOOTABLE MEDIA IN THE APPROPRIATE DRIVE
I was able to boot it from a Windows 98 Boot Disk created on my working computer, but FDISK wouldn't detect any harddrives either.
So i fiddled around with the cables and BIOS settings, managed to break the floppy drive, replaced it with one from another savlaged computer, get it to load and put the boot disk in the new drive. First try it corrupts my disk. I remake the disk and put it back in. Second time the disk's contents remain intact but i still get
INSERT BOOTABLE MEDIA IN THE APPROPRIATE DRIVE
So i take the harddrives out of my other crappy computer and hook those up. No response still. The three HDs ive been working with are two Maxtors (one original, one secondary on other computer) and a Quantum Fireball (Primary on other PC)
None of my friends have any idea and I've run out of things to try so someone please help.
Thanks
So i take it home, hook it up and viola...
-Video Card Loads
-Bios Starts
-Detects Ram
-Detects Keyboard
-Detects Mouse
-Detects Floppy
INSERT BOOTABLE MEDIA IN THE APPROPRIATE DRIVE
I was able to boot it from a Windows 98 Boot Disk created on my working computer, but FDISK wouldn't detect any harddrives either.
So i fiddled around with the cables and BIOS settings, managed to break the floppy drive, replaced it with one from another savlaged computer, get it to load and put the boot disk in the new drive. First try it corrupts my disk. I remake the disk and put it back in. Second time the disk's contents remain intact but i still get
INSERT BOOTABLE MEDIA IN THE APPROPRIATE DRIVE
So i take the harddrives out of my other crappy computer and hook those up. No response still. The three HDs ive been working with are two Maxtors (one original, one secondary on other computer) and a Quantum Fireball (Primary on other PC)
None of my friends have any idea and I've run out of things to try so someone please help.
Thanks