MotherBoard and Hard Drive Troubles

[XeroGravity]

I have recently Purchased a MSI Mother Board K7T266 Pro2 and Also purchased a 40 Gig IBM Hard Drive. After Install and checking to make sure that Cmos was set to Auto Detect, which it did. I get this message when I start the PC up after POST "Searching for Boot Record from IDE-0 Not Found. Any Suggestions would be greatly Appreciated.

Xero

 

[edfair]

What operating system did you try to install?
How did you try to install it? Ed Fair
unixstuff@juno.com
Any advice I give is my best judgement based on my interpretation of the facts you supply. Help increase my knowledge by providing some feedback, good or bad, on any advice I have given.

 

[XeroGravity]

Edfair,

This is a Brand New Hard Drive and Mother Board, haven't been able to get far enough yet to Install a OS. When I start the PC it goes as far as the POST and then it gives me this message "Searching for boot Record from IDE-0 not found." So you see I haven't been able to get to that point in the Installation Process. Any Further Suggestions? Thanx

 

[edfair]

You're getting the error message because you haven't got an operating system. Try getting into CMOS and change the boot order to floppy or CDROM and boot from one of those.
If from floppy, you can manually fdisk and format the drive. If from CD the boot loader there should automatically fdisk and format for you.
Ed Fair
unixstuff@juno.com
Any advice I give is my best judgement based on my interpretation of the facts you supply. Help increase my knowledge by providing some feedback, good or bad, on any advice I have given.

 

[aces0]

>haven't been able to get far enough yet to Install a OS. When I start the PC it goes as far as the POST and then it gives me this message &quot;Searching for boot Record from IDE-0 not found.&quot;<

humm ok your having a problem understanding formating so ill give you a real easy way to do it. down load maxblast PLUS
from here

http://www.maxtor.com/products/DiamondMax/software/maxblast/

on a floppy then put it in at the startup and make shure you have a 98 or me floppy recovery or start up disk because it will ask you to put it in then at cd E: enter setup.exe and put in the CD its thats it easy