Windows 98 Reformatting Problem

**scottwile** · 12-25-2003, 04:02 AM

I have reformatted my hard drive. I am running windows 98. After the drive was clear I tried to reinstall windows and it said invalid system disk. I borrowed a copy from a friend and it still gave me the same message. I also tried Windows 95. Could someone please tell me what’s wrong or send/tell me how to get a bootable disk?

**wenze1** · 12-25-2003, 04:03 AM

Sounds like your hardrive is screwed. :helpsmile:

**balamm** · 12-25-2003, 04:26 AM

Sounds More like you wiped it but haven't set an active partition or formatted properly.
Use the start up disk and a: fdisk
then after a restart, a: format c /s

**wenze1** · 12-25-2003, 04:31 AM

This site has boot disk's you can download Bootdisk's :beerchug:

**scottwile** · 12-25-2003, 04:50 AM

hmm. i have made the boot disk, thanks for you help, but now it doesn't seem to be reading my a drive(disk) my cd drive seems to be working but i'm not sure. could i burn it on a cd and boot it or anything?

**balamm** · 12-25-2003, 05:22 AM

You know how to clear CMOS? Do that first.
Is your drive even recognized on that board without easy bios installed?
If it's a large drive you may have to reinstall easy bios to have it recognized after a complete format.

**sparsely** · 12-25-2003, 05:26 AM

I still think balamm was right the first time:
fdisk

**scottwile** · 12-25-2003, 05:36 AM

Sounds More like you wiped it but haven't set an active partition or formatted properly.
Use the start up disk and a: fdisk
then after a restart, a: format c /s

What is this
and this? CMOS

thanks alot guys