Indeed that is also a possibility. Nothing so far suggests that the bootable partition has been changed (by PQBoot or something similar) so i was picking from my experience of upgrading from Socket A to 939
There was no problem with the drive not being detected (it was shown in the Bios) but i had DBF - ISD when trying to boot. Using PQMagic off floppies showed I had an active partition set so I ended up doing a fresh install of XP booting from the CD and it ran fine thereafter
My WinME CD was not a bootable CD. I had to use a boot floopy and then install from the CD. The OEM version may be different but mine was the upgrade...
Originally Posted by Saab Dastard
Not sure I agree there - "Disk boot failure - insert system disk" sounds to me much more like a non-detected hard drive, or a disk with no bootable partition set.
I'm sure that Win ME installs off a bootable CD - whether your WIN ME CD is bootable is a different matter!