Tech Support Forum - View Single Post - "New" Harddrive in a PII - Won't Boot from Floppy or CD-Rom

**kodi** · 11-19-2008, 10:23 PM

Your boot order (above post) needs changing to Floppy first,cd second, Hard drive third.
Some 98 install disks were not Bootable i.e. will not auto start.
Modern hard drives require an 80 wire IDE cable (the wide flat one) older hard drives used a 40 wire cable
Have a read of this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/221829

11-19-2008, 10:23 PM	#4 (permalink)
kodi Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Jun 2004 Location: Sydney Australia Posts: 7,370 OS: Windows 7-Ultimate 64 Bit My System	Re: "New" Harddrive in a PII - Won't Boot from Floppy or CD-Rom Your boot order (above post) needs changing to Floppy first,cd second, Hard drive third. Some 98 install disks were not Bootable i.e. will not auto start. Modern hard drives require an 80 wire IDE cable (the wide flat one) older hard drives used a 40 wire cable Have a read of this http://support.microsoft.com/kb/221829 __________________ Brian Last edited by kodi; 11-19-2008 at 10:26 PM.