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I have now corrected the problem and here is what I did. I did an FDISK and removed an NTFS partition. Then I formatted my hard drive. Then I copied the startup files from my Windos 98 startup floppy to my hard drive. Once I booted up using the hard drive I was able to access the CD ROM...

I have now corrected the problem and here is what I did. I did an FDISK and removed an NTFS partition. Then I formatted my hard drive. Then I copied the startup files from my Windos 98 startup floppy to my hard drive. Once I booted up using the hard drive I was able to access the CD ROM...

Resetting the bios will not help. There is a supervisor bios password that I do not have. The IBM supervisor password is not reset when the battery is removed. Without that password I can not boot from the cd.

I am not able to use both the cd rom drive and the floppy drive. Since they both go into the same ultra bay and they are not hot swappable. If I use a floppy to boot up it will not see the CD ROM drive, becasue both can not be there at the same time. I need to figure out a way to boot from...

I have a machine that I tried to install windows 2000 on. It failed. The machine is an IBM T21. The machine is configured with a supervisor bassword that will not allow me to boot frm a CD. The machine has a swappable (not hot swappable) CD and FLoppy. In order to be able to re-load an OS...

I am not able to boot from the CD ROM, The bios has been set up to only allow booting from either the hard drive or a removable floppy. The bios has disabled booting from an ATAPI CD ROM

I bought a used IBM T21 and was upgrading the operating system from NT4 to Windows 2000. The upgrade did not work, so I wanted to re-load NT4. Unfortunately, the supervisor password is preventing me from booting from a CD. I tried to format the hard drive so that I could boot from it and then...