Won't Boot from the disk for install

[Talk2Me]

I just put in a new motherboard ECS K7S5A Pro, WD 60G HDD, and CDRW. I've partitioned and formatted the hard drive and it seems good. When I put my Win ME Startup Disk into A:, it will boot, I select w/ CD support, it starts to load a CD driver by Oak Technologies, then stops. The CD won't work so I can't install Win ME from the CDRom. What do I do?

[Whyzman]

Did you use WD software to partition and format the Harddrive?

Do you have access to, say, a Win98 boot disk. It's possible there's a problem with your WinMe boot disk...I'd try another.

It's also possible that the generic drivers don't work with your CDRW drive...

[Talk2Me]

What do I do if the generic drivers won't work for the new CDRW? How do I get CDRom support to read the CD?

[Budfred]

I would get a Win98 boot disk from www.bootdisk.com since this is supposed to be one of the best for setting things up. Select to start with CD support and see if it works. If the generics don't work, you will need to find a working driver and install it manually from the floppy. What brand is you CD drive???

[Talk2Me]

I used another boot disk and everything loaded fine! I successfully have accomplished my first build! Hurray!

[Budfred]

Congratulations!! That was the board I used for my second build, pretty nice little board for the price....

[Whyzman]

Wow, that is great! Sometimes it's just the simplest of things...;)