yeah...my system disks don't seem to want to work with my new comp. can someone point me to a place where i can find a working boot disc. (with cdrom support) thanks.
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yeah...my system disks don't seem to want to work with my new comp. can someone point me to a place where i can find a working boot disc. (with cdrom support) thanks.
What kind of boot disk?(Win9x,WinNT,Linux,Bsd,etc.)Quote:
Originally posted by Shinobi128
yeah...my system disks don't seem to want to work with my new comp. can someone point me to a place where i can find a working boot disc. (with cdrom support) thanks.
whatever works, i'm going to install windows 2000.
nevermind.
turns out one of my fucking floppy drives dont' work for shit. i've been at this for a few hours now.
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umm... just boot from the Win2K CD
if it doesn't automatically, there should be a setting in your BIOS config allowing you to select the CD drive as the primary boot drive
yup kenshin has it, u might have to disable you HD as a boot device for it to boot from the cd, depends on your bios maker.
ok then, now i need bios to detect my cd-rom drives. :mad:
How old is your computer?
Most computers built within the last 5 years auto-detect CD-ROM devices. (including burners and DVD drives) Drivers don't matter, since all modern CD-ROMs are ATAPI standard compatible.
In the BIOS menu, usually reached by hitting "DEL" or "F2" at startup (usually says which key to hit at the bottom of the screen), find something that says something like "Boot Device" and select "ATAPI CD-ROM" or whatever as your primary boot device.
Then all you have to do is put in the Win2K CD, and the computer should boot off it. The CD will probably ask you to hit a key to continue, or else it will then go to the hard drive and continue your normal booting.
my computer is brand new...i've checked all the connections, jumpers, cables, everything. it's not detecting any cd-rom at all.
*rips hair out*