Very frustrated!!!!!!!! Keep getting Boot disk failure insert system disk!!!! WTF!???

[emptywallet]

I just got everything put together on my new computer.
AMD 1.2ghz Athlon Thunderbird
ECS motherboard
TDK CDRW 16x write, 10x rewrite, 40x rip
Sound Blaster 5.1 gamer X card
7200 rpm Western digital 30 gig HD
64mb ATI Radeon AGB video card
256mb micron ram
Colorcase.com EFX full tower.
Hmmm, i thats it besides a modem and a few other things. The problem I have is When I put the windows 2000 disk someone burned for me in to boot (I know it works becuase he uses the same one to boot his computer) I get boot disk error. I can even put my old windows 95 disk that is from microsoft and I get the same message, Boot disk failure insert system disk. In the bios I configured it for the first boot to boot from the CDROM. It recognizes all the drives in cmos and identifies them correctly. I have the cd rom in IDE 2 and the HD in IDE one. Both are on seperate ribbons and both are set to master. and I have all pin 1 connectors hooked up correctly. Someone told me to make a boot disk of windows 2000 on my old computer by puttin a floppy in the a drive and typing in the command in the CD prompt M:\bootdisk\makeboot.exe . Formatted 4 floppies and made the bootdisks using my windows2000 disk. Now, I set in the bios to use floppy for first boot. I got all the way to disk four in the setup, and then wham, it does nothing. It says setup will now run windows 2000 or something , and then doesnt do shit. Ive put my win00 cd in the drive and everything. It just sits there. Ive rebooted it, and changed in the bios to first boot from cdrom and it still doesnt do anything, gives me the same error. Boot disk failure insert system disk. So what the hell is wrong now!?!??!

 

[thefantom1]

The first thing that hit me is..... is your bios up to date?? And from what I hear win 00 is very choosy on what it will work with........... its probably something very basic..make sure the bios is up to date.. I went through hell once...(3 days and about 40 hours) of trying to get a printer to work after an upgrade from 95-98..and finally for the hell of it updated my bios and BAM........up and running like a champ...(of course my buddy whose computer it was.....was told that it was a very complicated thing to fix and that he wouldn't understand it........the only thing he wouldn't of understood is why I was such an idiot and didn't do the update first!!!) LOL..try the bios and let me know..........

 

[Latimer]

How long did you wait for it when it stalled/froze?

I just added an old Pavillion 6350 to my network and I ran into similar problems. Then I just waited extremely long and the next thing I knew the cd booted up to my surprise. It was the oddest thing because the delay was so long. It's running fine now though.

 

[emptywallet]

Lets' see. I think I waited anywhere from 5-8 minutes. and it did nothing. I could touch any key on the keyboard and nothing. I pressed control=alt=delete and nothing. The light in the floppy is on , and when a CD is in the drive its likght is on. But nothing, it just sits there. Any other ideas???

 

[Parabellum]

Does it try to read the cd and then freezes.
If you just put this machine together. Try using another CD rom. Maybe it's just bad.

I;ve alsow seen burnt cdr's play on some machine and crap out on others.

 

[Warik]

I HAVE HAD THE SAME PROBLEM - HERE IS FIX

I had the same problem when installing Win2k on a fresh HD. Your problem is most likely that your CD-Rom drive is below your hard drive in the booting priority in your BIOS.

Go into your BIOS and find something along the lines of boot disk order or boot disk priority etc... The order that you'll most likely see is FLOPPY, HARD DRIVE, and then CD-ROM. Change the order to FLOPPY, CD-ROM, and then HARD DRIVE. That should do the trick.

Let me know that doesn't do it.

-Warik