Try FDISK /MBR and see what happens.

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>>The simplest way to install W2K from its CD is to boot from the CD. To do that, you need to configure the computer's boot section in its BIOS so that it will try to boot from CD before it tries to boot from the HD. For most white-box machines you press the Delete key at the appropriate moment during boot to enter the BIOS setup.
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>This is exactly what I tried to do. I changed the BIOS setup to boot from the CD and I can see that the light on the CD drive flashes on at the boot time but it does not start the booting process.
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>What I also found out last night that somehow System Commander (that was residing on this notebook before) still has some kind of "command" over the pc. Even though I reformatted the drive. Last night I started the notebook with a floppy disk, then ran FDISK, deleted all partitions, created a primary partition. Then formatted the drive with FORMAT C: /S. Then restarted the PC but it gave me an error message that one of the System Commander files was missing and prompted me to select which Boot Sector (or something like that) I want to use. I think that System Commander still "owns" the Master Boot Record (MBR) but how I don't understand. Even after I FDISKed it. But it still does not explain why the PC would not boot from the CD.