no boot

I have a prob! I cant get an old comp,(150 mhz intell) to boot ! It will not boot to a hard drive it keeps saying (drive not ready please insert disk into a I have an old startup disk from another old comp.and when i boot off of the disk it loads all of the stuff on the disk but I cant get it to do anything! it will run scandisk and chdisk on the c drive (at least it said it did it and did not find any errors!)
I thought it might have a bad hd so i replaced it with a drive that i know is good but i still get the same thing (drive not ready insert disk in drive a) When I try to run fdisk I get an error (no fdisk drives) also when I go into the bios and change the boot order to cd,c,a it will still give me the same error msg. (no disk in drive a: any Ideas! stumped!

 

Recommend move to HW forum ..
regards

 

It does sound like you have a bad IDE controller [it works the hard drives and CD drives], I am moving this to Hardware.
But in the meantime, you can try this, change your boot order so that A: is before C:. Then boot with a 98 floppy and do these two commands, with your original hard drive connected.
fdisk /mbr
sys a: c:
The first command will appear to do nothing. When done remove floppy and reboot.

 

what you said makes sense ! I went and did what you said and this is what i got (no fixed disks present ) then( not ready reading drive D: ) sounds like this old comp will get a good place in the recycle bin!!! With the controler being bad thats why it will not boot from the cd or c: thx