press any key to boot from CD,then "missing operating system

Using full W2k CD.OK until gets to point where I see press any key to boot from CD and then "missing operating system." Nothing happens then...

 

Do you have 2K installed or are you trying to install it?

 

Not installed

Trying to install it in active created partition(Partition Magic).

 

It sounds like the system isn't handling the CD piece properly.

Try making a set of 2K install floppy disks and doing the install that way.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;197063

 

Ah.....,floppy disks.Alas,sadly,notebooks don't come with floppy drives any more!Frankly,I wish they had a serial port and floppy drive(and I mean built in not external)!

The computer I was working on ..BEGAN.. as a SONY notebook ,but I made "some" changes.

In any case,I found the answer to my problem.I went back to Partitition Magic deleted the partition in question and created a new one with FAT 32 rather than NTFS format.I don't know why the full W2K Pro install worked this way rather than with NTFS.

I tried a W2K install on another cptr recently using the 4 floppy disks but after the 4th was used,things hung!

Tks for comments !