bootup problem

Just trying to eliminate the obvious here.
1)make sure your first boot device is the floppy
2)make sure the jumpers on the hard drive are properly set
3)make sure the power cable to the hard drive is in right, red power cable is on the same side as the red stripe on the IDE cable
Good luck!

Mike

When you first turn on the computer as it is seeking the floppy does the light on the floppy come on and go out? In other words at some point soon after power on the floppy light should come on and go out. Or is the light on constantly? Did you try another Boot disk? There are so many basic things you have to go through first, let me know what you checked and what indications you saw with the floppy light and so on. Also in setup do you have the correct 3 1/2 drive setup. What about the floppy cable did you check that? In setup did you set the boot sequence? Such as A,C,D. Make sure to set the floppy to boot first then c: the D:
Let me know .

DM

1: if you have the original cd of win98(se) you can use it. The cd is bootable so just make sure you set in this case that the system will check the cdrom first and the process will start.
2. Install your old harddisk back or go to someone with a working OS, preferably win98 since it when you create a bootdisk it will provide an option to start with cdrom support (you will need it for the win98(se) cd.
To make a bootable floppy go to start, settings, control panel, add remove programs, windows setup ( i believe it the 2nd tab, I am doing this by heart) and then create bootdisk.
make sure both the fdisk.exe and the format.exe commands are on the cd (one of them won't be copied). The files mentioned are in the windows\command folder (or search on your harddisk for them) and copy them to the floppy.
By now you should be ready.
Make sure that in the bios that it will boot from the floppy as the second option (1st is harddisk).

happy installing.

Us no jumpers on the hard drive. Western
digital is well known for not using jumpers if you are using it for master hard drive.

1=Master Boot Record could be corrupt
2=System files are corrupt
Use the start up disk at the command prompt type in SYS C: hit enter
Reboot,if this does not fix the problem
At the command prompt type Fdisk /MBR
Now try to partition and format drive
Open the CMOS control paneland in the BIOS configuration select to auto detect,save and exit
check the drive to make sure that you have the correct jumper settings on the drive,select master or slave.
Does the BIOS support the size drive that you are installing?

update your BIOS

Set in BIOS --> boot order a: before c:, and set 'seek floppy at boot' to enable, set 'hide floppy from Win9x' to disable ...

Dumb question, but are you trying to boot off the disk provided by WD? This is not bootable you need to start with a bootable system disk, then you can run the EZ Drive diskette. Then fdisk and format/s loading the system to the hard drive.

One word - JUMPERS

Please (anyone) correct me if I am wrong but since you're running a 100Mhz computer your motherboard may not be able to accommodate a UDMA100 drive.

Brian Wool
bwool@hotmail.com

This must be a hot topic and it would be nice if piko0 would fill us in on the progress or lack of that he is having with this problem, also concerning the last answer about this 100 mhz motherboard not being able to accomodate the Ultra DMA100 drive, thats not the immediate problem! His problem is, if one was to pay attention to his question is his floppy is not working so he can go ahead and set up the hard drive (partition, format etc.) which by the way he states is recognized by the bios. So lets hear whats going on Len!

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