This is a very useful site and i'm so glad i found it! Lots of very, very useful information for technicians and users alike
I am having a ISSUE with a customers system right now.
Installed a new 40g hard DRIVE to a computer and am TRYING to install windows 2000 as the operating system. Here is the problem: Windows 2000 GOES through its setup, formats hard drive, goes through another setup and reboots to do the SAME thing over again. When i reboot the system windows doesn't load.. instead i get the infamous "disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter"... any idea what i'm doing wrong??

Thanks,Computer make/model? One hard drive that I assumed is jumpered correctly? Can you see if the files have indeed been loaded on the hard drive? Was it working correctly other than a bad hard drive before?it's a custom pc with an intel pent II.
It is jumpered correctly.
files have been loaded on hard drive. The computer was not booting from the old drive so i replaced it.. and now this.Something wrong with the IDE channel itself perhaps? I assume you have verified that that drive worked fine in a different machine.

As it is somewhat of an elderly macine, it might be easier and cheaper to replace the board with an EQUIVALENT, than to break out the soldering iron.