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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?
Sounds like your hardrive is screwed. :helpsmile:
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
This site has boot disk's you can download Bootdisk's :beerchug: :pimp: :smoke:
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?
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.
I still think balamm was right the first time:
fdisk
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
Google is your best friend at times like this.
http://www.google.ca/search?q=how+to+fdisk...n&ie=ISO-8859-1
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8...lear+CMOS&meta=
alright, thanks i'll look at them tomorrow, merry x-mas
goodnight