Diane,

Your HD is just not being detected. Go into your BIOS to the first screen
and note the numbers (sectors, # of sectors,etc) for drive 0. They will
probably be all zero. If your BIOS has an automatic detect, select that and
it will find the HD. If not you will have to put the numbers in manually.
They are listed on the hard drive itself.

Les Barnes


----- Original Message -----
From: "Diane Duncan" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2004 9:38 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] No hard disk on cd boot Setup


> Hello,
>
> This is a combination of software and hardware, but I think maybe the
> hardware part comes first.  Please bear with me as I set the stage  :)
>
> I've had a PII sitting here silent for about a year and every once in a
> while I get enthused to try to do stuff with it.  It was what I used until
> I got my current PIII, and was running Windows 98se as the OS.  Today, I
> ran into some trouble...no OS detected...so I tried a boot using the OS
> cd.  The bad news is, that didn't work; the good news is, I haven't blown
> myself up yet. <snip>




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