Yes, the disk is jumpered correctly.

Yes, the CD rom is bootable.

The CD cable is connected.

My brother tells me that it might be the motherboard...however I can get
into BIOS settings, and when I insert my CD ROM floppy disk, I get the A: and
C: and D: prompts.

Windows Millenium however can not load, even though it is already installed.

It was installed on another computer as the ONLY harddrive. That HD was then
taken to this machine and placed as the ONLY harddrive. So I know that
Windows ME boots and it all functions good on the former desktop system.

Should I do a NEW INSATLL on the tower that I want to put the HARDDRIVE in?



"Mike M" wrote:

The floppy doesn't boot it.

That is worrying and would suggest you have major hardware problems.
Until you can boot from your floppy disk it could be pointless in
continuing. Is it possible that you have connected the cable joining the
floppy to the motherboard incorrectly? Check the end where it plugs into
the floppy.

The CD doesn't boot it.

Is your Win Me CD bootable? Those produced by Microsoft were not although
it is possible that some OEM produced CDs were bootable.

Your hard disk. Is it jumpered correctly for the new machine?
--
Mike Maltby



Vampyrecowboy wrote:

I formatted my hard Drive and did a fresh install of Millenium.

I switched the harddrive to a new machine, disconnected 1 or 2 cd
drives, took out the sound drivers and lan and modem, just so that I
have the basics inside the tower.

I am using 256 ram, pc 100, a floppy and 1 cd drive

Now when I go to boot my system, it reads INVALID SYSTEM DISK -
REPLACE THE DISK, then press any key.

There is nothing but WINDOWS ME on the harddrive.

The floppy doesn't boot it.

The CD doesn't boot it.

The hard drive doesn't boot. What is wrong?

This HARDDRIVE works fine in my other computer. It boots great.
everything opens. But when I insert it back in the tower I want, I
always get the message INVALD SYSTEM DISK.

I've used the ME boot disk, I've used the CD and it still does not
boot.

Pressing any key still gets me the same message.