system install with no floppy drive - solved thanks

[NeoV]

Hey all....I need a little bit of help here..


I just put together a system for someone, but I didn't have a floppy drive available, so it just has a hard drive and a CD-Rom drive. The drive has not yet been formatted, and I am going to put Win2k onto the system. I boot from the CD, but Win2k's setup says that it can't find a hard drive...so, my question is this...what files do I need to put on a CD that will enable me to boot up with that CD, and do I just run format.exe /s once I boot it up? Thank you for any help you can give me!

 

[wedi42]

2 options
- put in a floppy drive
- put harddrive in another system and format it

 

[GregMal]

If you can boot to the CDRom drive you should be OK!
There should be setup/format files on the CD. I'm not too
familiar with W2000 so it may be different than Win9x which
would use the fdisk, format commands.............
Greg

 

[Mikendi]

If setup says it can't find a hard drive there may be something wrong with the drive. Is the hdd recognized in BIOS?

 

[jblondi]

yeah, you are fine if you are getting into the win2k setup, you wont need a floppy. Win2k Will partition and format on its own. Something is wrong with the disk, or its config. Is it a master on the chain? And yes, does it show up correctly in the bios as master?

 

[ThisIsMatt]

Change the boot order to boot to cd first...

 

[NeoV]

it did not show up in the bios....should it even if it is brand new out of the box?

I did change the boot order, and I get to the boot process of the Win2k cd...but after it says copying files and all that stuff, it says it can't find a hard drive....

 

[Mingon]

Sounds like a jumper or cable issue.

 

[NeoV]

it was in fact a jumper issue! Thanks all