DISK Boot FALIURE Friday, February 6, 2004 at 7:52 am Windows 2000 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Ajak (7 messages posted) I am trying to install Win2KPro on a 40Gb HD from CD but I get this message: Updating ESCD...Success Verifying DMI Pool Data Boot from Atapi CD-ROM DISK Boot FALIURE, INSERT SYSTEM DISK AND PRESS ENTER I have tried booting from an MS-DOS 6.22 Floppy & Ultimate Boot Disk , hoping to use Fdisk but I got: "missing ntldr". I added the ntdetect & ntldr files to the Boot Disks but no luck. I can't find a way to access the A: Prompt The drive originally had Win98SE on, I mistakenly tried to install Win2KPro Upgrade over it & the installation hung just before the end & I had to abort. No longer able to access files on that drive, I installed Win2KPro on another (120Gb) HD & found I could access the previous drive. Another erroneous attempt to install Win2kPro over the 40Gb resulted in trashed partitions (I had already backed up). I used the Write Signature & Upgrade Disk Wizard in Win2k Disk Management to recover the HD. I then partitioned & formatted with NTFS. I suspect the previous MBR is still resident in a boot partition, could this be so?, & if so how do I replace it?. Responses to this message: re: DISK Boot FALIURE (MaddMaxx: Friday, February 6, 2004 at 11:23 am) All messages in this thread [show all] DISK Boot FALIURE (Ajak: Fri, Feb 6, 2004, 7:52 am) re: DISK Boot FALIURE (MaddMaxx: Fri, Feb 6, 2004, 11:23 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 2000 Discussion Forum