Thanks for you suggestions. Remind me again what is
CMOS? Do you mean the boot sequence in set up mode? If
so, yes. I've gone in and changed the boot sequence so
it boots from the cd rom to no avail.

--- Dean Kukral <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> It is not real clear what the sequence of events is
> here and what you mean
> by "boot up," but did you remember to set in CMOS
> for the BIOS to check the
> cd as a possible boot disk?  Then, when the o.s. is
> loaded, you will also
> have to set the new disk as the boot disk.  It is
> possible that it is
> looking for the operating system on the old disk
> and/or on a floppy.  Go
> into CMOS and check to make sure it is set right.
> (Never having had a SCSI
> computer, I do not know their idiosyncracies.)
>
> Dean Kukral
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Patrick Roane
> Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 12:42 PM
> Subject: [PCBUILD] western digital
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I have an old Dell PII Demension XPS 400 that has a
> bad hard drive. It is a Western digital 4.36
> single-ended ultra fast wide SCSI-3 interface.
>
> I didn't know this when I bought a new seagate 8.4
> gig
> IDE which I installed w/the spare IDE cable comming
> from the mother board.
>
> It needs an OS, so I put my win2000 cd (burned and
> has
> worked in the past) and it boots up, but than it
> says
> "No OS Found. Insert OS setup disk, then press any
> key"
>
> Do I need to reformat the new hard drive using
> fdisk?
>
> any help would be great.
>
> thanks-
>
> Patrick
>
>
>
>
>


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