James Button wrote:
First NTLDR missing message hints that you have some of a w2K? OS on the
hard drive
Second - with floppy in the drive the system should try to boot from it - If
it isn't a booting floppy, you should be told
Third - why not use the FDISK within the initialisation in the OS setup CD
See if the system will floppy boot without the hard drive
reasons for not seeing a floppy when the BIOS is set to boot from it ...
have you still got a floppy drive in the setup
are the power and interface cables properly connected
( the floppy light should come on for a short period during the bios self
test)
Is the new drive properly setup for the interface cable,
(and other drives - master slave, only, CS etc.)
Thanks to all who replied.
The answer was in the BIOS.
While it was set to boot to the floppy and then the CD,
there is a line way down the bottom of that screen that askes something
like"floppy"---- "on" or "off"
It was set off.
Changed it to on and voila it works.
Never noticed this before and I certainly never fooled with it ut
something must have changed it since the last time I used the boot to
floppy when it had worked.
Learn something every day.
Just find it hard to remember everything.
Sam
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