new hard drive= disk boot failure after attempting to load w2000

[tcurling]

using a new 80g hard drive. found that I could only get the drive located using 3&4 and 5&6 jumpers. used the tool disk that came with the hd to make a "bootable floppy". Used this disk to load whatever on the drive and then it promted me to load the operating system cd (w2000 pro). I did this and it loaded and said it needed to format the Hd, the disk that came with the Hd was supposed to have done that, but I said ok and formated again. everything seemed to load ok, and said it was going to restart. system restarted, but comes up DISK BOOT FAILURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER. Ive put the os disk back in, but it wants to start the load process all over again. Ive tried to use a w98 start up disk and do a sys c:/s to see if that would work, but doesnt. Im not a computer geek, please tell me how I can get that system to boot.
tcurling

 

[jrbarnett]

Put the Windows 2000 Pro CD in the drive, set the boot order so that the CD is ahead of the HDD in the BIOS and this should kick off the installer.

To get into the BIOS setup program, it is normally accessed via a key combination during the memory test or manufacturers logo being displayed onscreen. Common combinations are F2, Ctrl Alt Escape and Del.

John

 

[tcurling]

I have set the BIOS to start cdrom, c, a and it still comes up boot failure insert system disk. Not sure what the problem is ...its like it hasnt loaded a boot system .. I used the bootable disk that came with the hard drive to make a bootable floppy.. it loaded some files, but didnt seem to help with the boot problem. Thanks

 

[jrbarnett]

Thats strange, as the Windows 2000 Pro CD is bootable out of the box.
If your system doesn't boot from it, I'd check that the IDE cable is connected properly (grey 40 pin ribbon, goes to the motherboard) and the power cable (4 pin white connector), goes to the power supply.

I'd also check that the hard disk's IDE cable is connected correctly. This should be connected to the IDE cable which plugs into the master controller on the hard disk. The jumper settings should be set to Master or Master with Slave present.
You don't say which make/model of hard disk you have, but the jumper settings mean different things on different drives so I can't tell if they are correct from your post.

If the CD-ROM connects to the same cable as the hard disk, its jumper settings should be set to slave.
Ideally, however, they would be on separate cables plugged into separate controllers on the motherboard, as this can affect system performance.

John

 

[wolluf]

tcurling,

You've posted the same question twice (other one is in hard drive forum) - it can get a bit confusing when you have 2 threads going on the same question.

when you tried booting the Cd, did you watch the screen (it displays a message, press any key to boot from CD. If you don't press a key, it continues with next boot device)?