OK, got a Compaq, for free, dead hard drive.

So I threw in my Maxtor 20G that was sitting around and doing nothing, popped in a Win2K CD, and figured it would be all honky-dury...nope, it goes through the first install phase where it copies files, etc, but after that refuses to boot. Leaves me with a blinking cursor.

At first I thought it was one of those bits with the "BIOS" on the hard disk but I just flashed the BIOS and it didn't use the hard disk at all.

WTF?