LOL!!! My neighbor (complete computer novice) came over to me asking if I could help him set up his computer, right? So, I said Sure! Ok...this computer had literally 128KB ram, so I added 287MB of ram to it. Lookin cool, I took it in his house, plugged it in, got it up.
It worked like a Beauty! This is a DELL from like '94 or '95!!!!!! I couldn't believe it worked at all. I told him what I was going to do, and he aggreed to all of it. I was going to install 2000 Pro (Windows), and I have it on disc. I've only installed an operating system once. This was the second time...I popped in the disc, and hit restart..It comes back up, and starts Win 95! It wouldn't read the disc. Soooo, acting cool, I said, I gotta do something to get it to install 2000. He said "ok". I went through this complete guessing game of what to do, acting like I knew what I was doing the entire time.
Finally, I think about boot order. The computer was reading the HDD first (and finding 95), then the ZIP drive, then the CD drive, by which time 95 had already started up. I, again totally guessing!, went into system setup. VIOLA! There's the boot order setting. I reset it to read the CD first, then the HDD, by which time it had already started 2000 installation.
Slick.