Compaq Ipaq Won't Boot

Hi,
I Bought a Compaq Ipaq computer because my old compaq went dead.
The ipaq came with restore disks but with no cd-rom drive. The previous owner had wiped out the old operating system before selling it with fdisk.
I am trying to install windows 2000 from the restore disks by copying the disks to an external memory card and making it boot from the usb memory card. but every time after the compaq screen goes on i get keep get a message saying "disk error" the hard drive seems to be fine yet the computer says it need to be replaced.
This is really hard to explain so i made screen shots

this is how it boots
http://www.geocities.com/ynyfrik/ipaq1.html

and this is some test i did with the bios to the hard drive
http://www.geocities.com/ynyfrik/test.html

Ignore the PXE error, it is for booting the computer from a server over a network. "Non-System Disk or Disk Error" is the normal message you get when trying to boot from a blank hard drive. The BIOS probably doesnt support booting from USB media.

But it allows me to set boot order which includes UBS Devices, currently I have everything disabled and only usb enabled as first. I can get more screen shots if needed.

Well, in that case, the files probably were not copied to the USB drive in such a way to make it bootable. Just like creating a bootable floppy or CD, there are certain things that need to be done to make it actually boot.

http://www.weethet.nl/english/hardware_ ... bstick.php

I still don't understand.
I can't create a ms-dos startup disk they way it's pictured,that feature is tanned.

I am loading windows 2000 on my usb memory card so that it would install off of it, I don't want to make it my harddrive.

Did you look at this page
http://www.geocities.com/ynyfrik/ipaq1.html
what does pxe mean?

oh wait I didn't read the whole thing,
But now iI have another Problem I don't have a floppy drive.

Oh actually i have one on my laptop,
Thanks I will ltry that method,
Though why is Pxe failing?

As I said in the first post, PXE for booting over the network. If you dont have a server for PXE, it will always fail.

http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/P/PXE.html

oh yea sorry i should pay more attention ,

anyways i am having problems in the commpand promt
What do i write in the comand prompt

C:\Documents and Settings\Zachary>

I keep getting "is not recognized as an internal or external command,operable progrtam or batch file."

Update I figured it out commands CD and Dir where what i was looking for

I followed every step and still same error.

http://www.nu2.nu/mkbt/

Download the application before you try to run it

i did