Upgrading Hard Drive

[dchoi47]

Hey,

I'm in the process of upgrading my hard drive on my laptop... The problem is... I use the boot disk from windows to start up the computer... Then when I replace the floppy disk drive with the cd drive to use the cd that came with the laptop, it dosen't work.

What are my options?

Do I make a different kind of boot disk?

 

[Fardringle]

When you boot from floppy, it tries to locate a CD drive before loading the appropriate drivers. Since your CD drive is not plugged in at that time, it does not load the drivers for it and therefore the CD drive does not work when you plug it in after booting from the floppy.

The easiest option would be to use a bootable CD. Most Windows install/recovery CDs are bootable. If yours is not, you can make one using Nero or other CD burning software on a PC that has a CD burner in it.