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Trouble installing OS

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makshim

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My friend is having trouble installing Win2k on his computer. He puts in the CD and Boot Disk 1, and the gets a cannot read disk A error. Could the problem be that he is using a external Mac USB floppy drive? Or is the floppy just bad? (Or perhaps another problem?)
 
Why is he using the floppy disk in the first place? Every Windows 2000 CD is bootable. You only need the floppy disk SET if the computer is not capable of booting off of a CD in the CDROM drive.

The reason why set was capitolized is the boot disks for installing Windows 2000 if you can't boot off of CD is a 5 disk set.
 
The_Mage18 said:
Why is he using the floppy disk in the first place? Every Windows 2000 CD is bootable. You only need the floppy disk SET if the computer is not capable of booting off of a CD in the CDROM drive.

The reason why set was capitolized is the boot disks for installing Windows 2000 if you can't boot off of CD is a 5 disk set.
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He has four disks. The install does not start at all. It's an old 2000 maybe that is why there are disks. The installer starts on my computer if I just put the CD and Floppy 1 in, restart, so it is not the floppy disk.
 
Still, you don't need to use the disks. Have him try to boot off the CD.
Good step though testing the disk on your PC.

If he is using a Mac USB floppy, it should still work but once again you have to set the motherboard to boot off of a USB device. Not all motherboards are capable of this. My last suggestion is to connect the USB floppy he's using to your comp and see if you can read a disk with it. If you can't, the drive is bad. The format of the disk is irrelevant to the drive, it's only the OS that it matters and being a USB floppy, it will work on a PC or Mac so the fact that it's a "Mac" USB floppy is irrelevant. It's probably a bad drive.
 
The_Mage18 said:
Still, you don't need to use the disks. Have him try to boot off the CD.
Good step though testing the disk on your PC.

If he is using a Mac USB floppy, it should still work but once again you have to set the motherboard to boot off of a USB device. Not all motherboards are capable of this. My last suggestion is to connect the USB floppy he's using to your comp and see if you can read a disk with it. If you can't, the drive is bad. The format of the disk is irrelevant to the drive, it's only the OS that it matters and being a USB floppy, it will work on a PC or Mac so the fact that it's a "Mac" USB floppy is irrelevant. It's probably a bad drive.
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Thank you sir. I think setting it to boot off of USB is the problem. Will post tommorow about how it goes... Thanks again sir! :D
 
He gets the "non-system disk error". However I was just informed of beeping when the computer is turned on.... so he is looking that up now.... :confused:
 
Installing Windows XP Home (Dell) works until it says blah blah blah Dell only... so what could be the problem... right now his boot devices are set as-

1- USB FDD
2- CDRW
3- SATA
 
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