Quote Originally Posted by RRD3 View Post
With the replacement drive that you found. Can you put it in and then in the BIOS set it to boot to cdrom first and try an install?
I tried that, that's when I got the missing file error. Or at least I got that once. Now it sounds like it's trying to load from the CD drive for about 1 min or less, then just goes idle with a black screen with a cursor in the upper left corner.