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Re: A+ Computer geeks help!

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From: mcoker
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 21:29
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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. You might have a place to specify
the media type, I would set that to "auto".
I take it the drive's spinning up?
Make sure it's master on the primary IDE port, and jumpered so.
Try booting with a win98 boot disk and see if it will let you format
the drive.
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.

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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