A long shot, but... I hit this once when I mistakenly used the boot
diskettes for NT 3.51. Or perhaps you have diskettes for NT 4 Server? Check
the diskettes.
"Russell Keller" wrote in message
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> Hello All,
>
> I'm trying to clean up an old machine and get it back up and running
> normally. I've formatted my home Win98 machine several times and have
> always been able to figure it out but this one is stumping me.
>
> I have a computer that has lost administrative access. It is also Old and
> needs to be cleaned up anyway so I figured I'd just wipe it and start
fresh.
>
> But before I did that I went to bootdisk.com and got the WinNT 4.0 boot
> disks. It seems to work fine Until it asks for the CD-ROM. when it asks
me
> to put the Windows NT Workstation CD-ROM in the CD-ROM drive it won't read
> it. The set up Says that it Identified the CD-ROM and I heard it Humm a
bit
> at that time so I'm pretty sire it was working. But when I hit Enter it
> just pops back to the "Please Insert the compact disk labeled Windows NT
> Workstation CD-ROM" "Ress Endter when Ready" again and again.
>
> Am I missing part of the process?
>
>