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A friend of mine sent me some of his cast ofs after he upgraded his computer. Included was the Case/PSU Prophet 3d card Soundblaster Live sound card 1 Ghz AMD ( I want to say T-bird) DFI AK75 motherboard (jumperless. All settings are done in the BIOS/Setup) 2 128 meg sticks of RAM
Ok. I put everything together. Added a HD, DVD Rom CDRW It tries to boot up but stops short saying it needs a system disk. (no floopy drive yet, may not add one) It has odd characters when I look in BIOS for my HD. (40 gig split into a 11.7 gig and 31.1 gig)
Any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?
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If you haven't yet installed an operating system on your HD, you'll get that "need a system disk" error. It seems a little odd that your HD is split the way it is. Did you partition it that way on purpose? What exactly do you mean by "odd characters" when you're looking in the BIOS?
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It has Win2k on it already. I partitioned it when I rebuilt an old HP a friend gave me in a basket.... literally. Because I had some files that were irreplacable and couldn't afford to lose. As far as the odd characters, its like ASCII? with hearts, // stuff like that
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Did you do a fresh install of win2k, or move it over from another computer? Windows still doesn't like being moved from computer to computer
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I agree -- get ya a Windows 98 startup disk, use it to reformat the hard drive and start over (unless you have stuff on there you really need). Windows reads the hardware information of the system it was installed on -- you moved it to all new hardware and it doesn't like it. I never put a hard drive in a new box (unless the motherboard, etc is exactly the same) without reformatting the HD. (or unless it's a slave).
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No 98 disk is needed if you have a 2000 or XP CD. All that is needed is that the BIOS needs to be set to boot from CD, and the CD boot menu that follows will allow for you to repartition and reformat, after you select to install the operating system. The reason you are not able to boot into 2000 from that hard drive is because it was probably on a different make motherboard previously, and only has the HAL, or hardware abstraction layer, of the previous motherboard. It needs to be reinstalled to work with that motherboard.
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If you don't have the CD, you can google for a 98 startup disk (make sure you look for second edition "SE"). and create one easily. http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm
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