I took a WINDOWS 2000 out of a computer and put it into my newer one DELL. I then formatted the windows 2000 C: drive to put into a better DELL TOWER. With a freshly non existing OS on the harddrive I thought this would be a piece of cake. The DELL tower I got DID NOT have a hard drive in it. Its a DELL DIMENSION 8300 Series. 2.8GH processor, 512mb memory. I put the hard drive and nothing happened. I put in a WINDOWS 98 BOOT with CD SUPPORT. Nohting happened. The best I got was a message that said NTLDR missing. Hit ALT + DEL + CTRL to restart. I did reset the motherboard to reset NETBIOS and did the jumper trick. Same thing same message after doing this. When I go into NETBIOS and change the boot procedure it wont let me. I get three options. HARD DRIVE, DISKETTE, CD ROM. However, I can move diskette or cd rom up for the procedure. I also cannot select or enable the diskette or cd rom as well. Any suggestions?
Questions: 1> What did you use to format the drive with? Did you format it as FAT32 or NTFS? 2> Does the BIOS see the drive? If so, what are the specs? 3> Are you trying to install Windows 2000, 98 or XP?
I actually used the wrong jumpers. The jumpers I used had the CMOS next to it. I used the other jumpers by the battery area. After I used those jumpers, the boot up said PASSWORD DISABLED and then was able to enable the BOOT PROCEDURE. After that, it was like making supper for 125 people on a hot summer day in the snow. or something like that. THanks, though, dolphin, for taking time out for probably busy day to help though. Thanks again.
