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Go to dos, change the name of your windows directory to " windowsbck" and then
you should be able
to boot from your 98SE cd.
then use the utils on the cdrom to scandisk, etc.

Don't forget to change name back to C:\windows!!!!


mapi

<brookstexas@NOSPAMyahoo.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.161d74d8b4928bee989cc4@news-server.austin.rr.com...
| 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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