starting from cd

[tomm]

I'm re-asking a question that was addressed inside another
thread. Others have had this difficulty with little or no
success in fixing it.

I have a Compaq presario 7360, and I want to boot from the
CD. I have updated the bios with no help. If I go into
the boot order, there are only the HD and floppy to choose
from. Obviously, this thing is too old to be under any
kind of warranty, and it is too smooth to make a good boat
anchor. Any ideas?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I'm re-asking a question that was addressed inside another
thread. Others have had this difficulty with little or no
success in fixing it.

I have a Compaq presario 7360, and I want to boot from the
CD. I have updated the bios with no help. If I go into
the boot order, there are only the HD and floppy to choose
from. Obviously, this thing is too old to be under any
kind of warranty, and it is too smooth to make a good boat
anchor. Any ideas?

Presumably you wish to boot from a CD in order to install
Win2000.

As an alternative, you can boot your machine with a Win98
boot disk from www.bootdisk.com. It will recognise the CD
drive. Assuming that D: is your cd drive letter, you can start
your Win2000 installation with these commands:

d:
cd \i386
winnt

AFAIK, this only works if drive C: is a FAT/FAT32 drive,
and it fails if it is an NTFS drive.

 

[Steve Nielsen]

What are you attempting to do? If installing a fresh copy of Win2K then
Pegasus' advice should/might work, but if you are trying to get into the
recovery console or performing a repair installation by booting from the
CD you are out of luck since your BIOS does not support booting from CDROM.

I question why you would want to attempt putting Win2K on such an old
machine anyway. You won't be able to maintain it by booting from CDROM
into recovery console or running a repair install and that's going to be
a big limitation later on if you run into trouble.

Steve

 

[tomm]

Unfortunately, it is an NTFS.

-----Original Message-----



Presumably you wish to boot from a CD in order to install
Win2000.

As an alternative, you can boot your machine with a Win98
boot disk from www.bootdisk.com. It will recognise the CD
drive. Assuming that D: is your cd drive letter, you can start
your Win2000 installation with these commands:

d:
cd \i386
winnt

AFAIK, this only works if drive C: is a FAT/FAT32 drive,
and it fails if it is an NTFS drive.


.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Boot the machine with your Win98 boot disk, delete
the NTFS partition, then create & format a FAT32
partition.

 

[Dan Seur]

tomm - to clean-install W2k from the CD when you can't boot from the CD:

On any system that can read the CD (your machine or another), navigate
to the CD's \bootdisk directory and run makeboot.exe. Have 4 clean
formatted diskettes at hand. Follow instructions.

This will generate the bootable 4-diskette set of install diskettes that
enable you to install the system.

NOTE: these are the "install diskettes." They are not the "W2k boot
diskette" (which sometimes comes in handy when suddenly the hard drive
boot fails but the resident installed W2k is still operable.)