Problem Booting From CDROM or Floppy

[z0z0zz]

I have a Compaq Deskpro PII 400 running Win98 OS. I am trying to upgrade to Win 2k. OS. While the PC was booting, I went into the setup menu by pressing F10 (I assume this is the setup for BIOs). I checked the boot order. It is in the following order: 1)CDROM 2) Floppy Disk 3) Hard Drive. In addition, I changed to the "Full Boot" option from "Quick Boot" option from the same menu.

But So when I pop in a 2K OS CD, I expected the PC to boot from the CD, but it did not. On the monitor screen, the scrolling message momentarily showed that it is trying to boot from CD, then moved on to trying to boot from the floppy, but then the PC simply boots from the hard drive every time. I know that the CD is good, because I recently used the same CD to install Win 2K OS in another PC.

I also tried to boot from Win98 2nd Edition boot floppy, with the same result. Strangely enough, only Non-Hard Drive method I was able to use to successfully boot was with a Norton System Works CD. But that does not help because I am trying to install a new OS from a OS CD, not the anti-virus.

Does anyone have any advice, tips, and/or clues? Thanks in advance.

 

[lgebhart]

Can't you do a clean install of W2k from inside Windows 98. I remember doing that once with a W2K CD at the computer shop several years ago.

I'd also try setting all of the boot devices in the BIOS to CDROM so it has no other option but to boot from it. That has worked in the past for me.



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