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**blah789** · 05-15-2009, 06:55 AM

I used to have a K6-2 500 too. It was from Compaq and was able to boot from CD's and DVD's.

Anyways, back to the problem. The link posted by theoutcaste was good
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310994
it's for making the boot floppies (probably about 4 or 5). If you have another PC with floppy drives, create them (you have to scroll down a bit on that page to find the proper download).
His other advice is also good: make sure you pick save settings and exit when you exit the BIOS or it won't remember your selection (boot from CD first). Some people just press ctrl-alt-del to exit when they change their BIOS settings and expect them to be saved!

The easy way to find out the version of DOS/Windows on the floppy is to type
ver
after you boot from the floppy disk. Do you have any space left on the floppy? Type dir and it should list the files and tell you how much space is left. If you have room you could add some of the extra files needed so you can pass control to the CD-ROM.

05-15-2009, 06:55 AM	#8 (permalink)
blah789 TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 2,304 OS: Windows 2000 SP4 and Windows XP SP3	Re: win ME upgrade to win xp I used to have a K6-2 500 too. It was from Compaq and was able to boot from CD's and DVD's. Anyways, back to the problem. The link posted by theoutcaste was good http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310994 it's for making the boot floppies (probably about 4 or 5). If you have another PC with floppy drives, create them (you have to scroll down a bit on that page to find the proper download). His other advice is also good: make sure you pick save settings and exit when you exit the BIOS or it won't remember your selection (boot from CD first). Some people just press ctrl-alt-del to exit when they change their BIOS settings and expect them to be saved! The easy way to find out the version of DOS/Windows on the floppy is to type ver after you boot from the floppy disk. Do you have any space left on the floppy? Type dir and it should list the files and tell you how much space is left. If you have room you could add some of the extra files needed so you can pass control to the CD-ROM.