Boot disk error, but i replaced the hard drive

[thespeakerbox]

I just threw in a brand new hard drive and i STILL am getting boot drive errors.

 

[saltedeggman]

What is the exact message you are seeing?

What is your boot sequence? Do you have a floppy disk in the floppy drive?

 

[thespeakerbox]

I have no floppy, and the screen says "Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter" boot sequence is CD-rom , HD

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

What's in the CD-rom drive?

 

[thespeakerbox]

nothing

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Am I missing something?

What is it supposed to boot to?

 

[thespeakerbox]

I had a fedora core boot up disk , but nothing seems to get this thing going . No bootable OS i have works.

 

[thespeakerbox]

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[SketchMaster]

Did you make sure that the drive you want to boot from is the first one on the list in BIOS?

 

[pcgeek11]

Originally posted by: thespeakerbox
I have no floppy, and the screen says "Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter" boot sequence is CD-rom , HD

Question: What's in the CD-rom drive?

Answer: Nothing.

I think you have answered your own question.

New Hard drive with nothing on it.

Boot order set to CDRom then HD.

Nothing in the CDRom drive.

Nothing on the HD.

All this equals Nothing to boot.

So the system tells you exactly what the problem is: "Disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter" .

I had a fedora core boot up disk , but nothing seems to get this thing going . No bootable OS i have works.

Did you mean a bootable CD Disk? Did you verify the Fedora Core disk is actually bootable in a working PC?

Place an actual verified bootable CD in the CD Drive. Reboot the system and watch the screen for a To Boot from CD press the XXXXX key.... prompt on the black screen. When you see this press XXXXX key and it should at least attempt to boot from the CD Rom drive at this point. If it does then you can Partition, Format and Install the OS to the HD.

Let us know if you get it or not?

pcgeek11

 

[imported_LoKe]

Hook up the Hard Drive cable in one of the other slots, I had that problem before.

 

[pcgeek11]

Originally posted by: LoKe
Hook up the Hard Drive cable in one of the other slots, I had that problem before.

He has no OS on the new hard drive? With the error he quoted the machine see's the disk but it is not bootable.

pcgeek11

 

[thespeakerbox]

I finally got it to do to setup to play with settings, but it prompts me for a password. Its a brand new board!!! what the hell could the pass be!?!>!>!

 

[thespeakerbox]

So i cleared the CMOS and now the system wont power on at all. Im guessing a fried motherboard?

 

[thespeakerbox]

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