Boot Record

[Dennis Wrenn]

Hey guys,

I just built my own computer and I'm having some problems. I hooked everything up right, and the computer turns on, but when I try to boot it says it's searching for the boot record (it searches floppy, ide 0, cdrom, and scsi(I don't have scsi though)). Even when I have a bootdisk in the floppy drive it says this.

I had an old 1.5gb HDD that I previously had windows installed on and tried hooking that up. It until past the Windows 2000 startup screen(w/ the progress bar) Then a blue screen came up that said something about the boot record, and it said if I installed any new IDE channels or harddrives to remove them and try retstarting the computer.

The bootdisk I tried booting from is for windows 98SE. Is there anyway I can get into DOS? I'm making a boot disk for DOS 6.22 right now to see if that will work.


Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Dennis

Edit: I tried the DOS 6.22 boot disk and I had the same results. Here is more info on the error.

Searching Floppy ... Not Found
Searching IDE 0 ... Not Found
Searching CD-ROM ... Not Found
Searching SCSI ... Not Found

Boot Failure. Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device.