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In article <ga67rtgui6q55bonpe023qgc0jrg03hlmt@4ax.com>, mcoker@jump.net 
says...
> It could be a number of things really. You might go into that system's
> BIOS and see if it has an IDE detection utility and see if the BIOS
> detects the drive as being there.
It does
> You might have a place to specify
> the media type, I would set that to "auto".
It is
> I take it the drive's spinning up?
Yup
> Make sure it's master on the primary IDE port, and jumpered so.
Yup
> Try booting with a win98 boot disk and see if it will let you format
> the drive.
Only have Win 98SE "full" copy, OS is Win 98 1st Ed so it won't accept it 
dammit!
> You don't have a floppy disk in the floppy drive do you? If so, take
> it out unless it's a boot disk and you're actually using it.
Nope, empty 
> On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 20:26:32 GMT, <brookstexas@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> >I upgraded to a larger faster hard drive in one of my systems. I took 
> >that 8 Mb HD and dropped it into another system to replaced it's failed 
> >HD. The HD already had Win98SE on it. Now during post after it checks to 
> >see if the HD, CDROM and Floppy are there I get "Invalid System Disk, 
> >Replace disk, and then press any key" Yadda Yadda.
> >I dropped another floppy in as I thought maybe it was bad, still the 
> >same. Any clues?
> >TIA,
> > BT
> 
> 

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