Okay, I bought a WD 30.7 Gig IDE hard drive, it was the best bang for the buck. First off the 1999 bios didn’t discover it. After a technical call to WD, I added another jumper to the hard drive and it was discovered. I fdisked and formatted the drive via a Win98 startup disk. Then using this same disk I started up the computer and tried to install Win 2000 server edition. About 15 minutes into it (it was still copying files) I got an error message that it could not recognize my boot drive/device.
It told me to restart the computer and see if I got past this error message – I didn’t. What IS the problem? I did install Win98 on it, it installed flawlessly. I tried to upgrade from the 98 version to 2000 and got stuck in/on the same error message. Help me.
The computer is running a Celeron 366 with 96 megs of RAM. A generic SIS 4 meg AGP video card. It has two net cards, a DVD ROM and a CD ROM. The hard drive is hooked up as a primary running off the number one IDE controller. The DVD and CD are primary and slave running off the number two IDE controller.
This should be a slam dunk – the only thing I can point at is the WD hard drive.