Hi. I was given a PC without a hard drive. So I installed onto the Gateway PIII-550 Mhz/128 MB RAM PC a 40 GB Western Digital hard drive and W2K Pro operating system. The disc was partitioned and formatted to 8 and 32 MB on drives C and E, respectively; W2K Pro is on drive C, CD-ROM on drive D. Setup was ok.
After POST-ing from a cold boot, though, it stops with a flag ?Operating System Not Found?. A few warm boots gives the same flag. Only after entering the BIOS and doing essentially nothing but exiting and rebooting does it proceed into W2K Pro O.S., sometimes. The Boot-up files were copied off of this retail version of W2K Pro O.S. onto floppies and loaded from a cold boot. It booted ok the first time and proceeded to W2K Pro, but upon shut down and a cold boot, the flag returns. It only precedes to W2K Pro after alternating warm and cold boot a few times, plus entering/exiting the BIOS with no changes.
Note- the appropriate Phoenix P14 BIOS flash for the Tabor motherboard was downloaded to floppy for an update. But, even though the floppy was moved to the first bootable object in the BIOS, the warm reboot from Windows GUI failed to produce the Intel Flash Memory Update Utility dialogue box to allow loading of the update program. The warm boot then proceeded past the POST back to W2K Pro GUI.
So, any solutions for fixing a system that boots improperly to its Windows destination?
Thank you for your reply, TWonk.
