Victor,
Boot from a windows 95/98 boot disk, get to the dos prompt, and type 'fdisk
/mbr'. Then try booting off the CD. If you still can't, do an internet
search on "windows boot images"--there is a site (url escapes me at the
moment), that provides boot disk images of virtual any os that you could
possibly want to install.
Michael
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Michael Viron
Senior Systems & Administration Consultant
Web Spinners, University of West Florida
At 03:24 PM 05/03/2001 -0700, Victor Richardson wrote:
>I know this is going to get me a serious heckling, but...
>
>Unfortunately, my boss wants me to switch one of our (very stable)
>Mandrake servers to Win2000 Pro (only) for a tester. The problem I
>keep running into is that I cannot get the server to boot from the
>Windows install cd. It goes through bios check, spins the cd for a bit,
>and then proceeds on with the normal boot. I have even downloaded the 4
>install disks and run into a "disk I/O error" on the first one.
>
>I talked to Toshiba's support desk (it's a M500 -PIII 500 mHz) and they
>said that I need to repartition the disk, then format and install.
>
>Does this mean wiping out the MBR? What should I do?
>
>I know all sorts of good jokes automatically come to mind, but this is
>fairly serious.
>
>Any suggestions appreciated,
>
>Victor
>
>
