CD/Floppy Not Recognized

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Just finished building this box and after setting up the Bios, I try to boot into either the CD or Floppy to use the WD'd Data Lifeguard Tools to setup the HD. I keep getting the message that no boot disk was found. I know the CD and floppy work because they are from a working system and also that the CD and floppy discs are good because they also work in other systems.

Any ideas?

Thanks

 

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Just found out that the new floppy cable that came with the MB was bad. Also, the Bootable CD that Western Digital supplies does not come with any CD Rom drivers so that's why the CD would not boot up.

 

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CD ROM drivers? Who needs those these days? If your hard drive wasn't formatted and your BIOS boot priority was set to hard drive that would have given you the error. Change the boot priority in your BIOS to CD-> Floppy-> Hard Disk. Boot from a windows CD and format the disk, then install and you shouldn't have any problems. I've never ever had to install CD ROM drivers on anything, not even windows 98.

 

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I have never seen it either but there it was. I did set my boot priorities to CD>Floppy>HD but it would give me that error. At least I found the problem with the bad floppy cable and was able to boot into the floppy. The CD/DVD works great in Windows.