okay...I am still having odd things with my partition table. For those of you who responded to my prior post (Bad Partition & System Disk) Thanks...this is directly related to that. I found a set of DOS 5 floppy disks. The first time I tried to install it, I found I had a bad floppy drive. I've replace that and have run fdisk, format and have installed DOS 5 on my hard drive. HOWEVER, it still will not boot from C: - I get an 'Invalid Partition Table' error. When I run FDISK and look at the partition table, it says that C is Active, Primary Dos partition. I don't know what else to try. What partition table is this thing looking at? Are there any utilities available to download somewhere that will help me figure this out? Thanks in Advance! Venecha

I forgot to mention a few things in my above email: 1) The last type of system to be installed on this computer was Win98 (it came with 95) 2) The partition that DOS 5 created was FAT16. 3) I am going to want to install Win98, but it is on a CD. It currently does not recognize my CD drive (and I don't know how to get it to 'see' it!) Do I need to find something else to create a FAT32 partition instead?

when i try to create the bootdisk and it goes through the initial speil, it tells me that this actions is not supported under windows NT. What it was probably doing was a format /s (or something similar). I've got a system disk (bootable) that I can use (copy the files over) but I really need a COMMAND.COM file for Win98. Can anyone email me one?? Please? venecha

HELP!! I am such a rookie trying to build my own system. I have formated my hard drive and nomatter what source for booting(boot disk, hard drive, cdrom) I use I get Invalid Partition Table, wasssss up???

Maybe late, but thought I would add for future finders.. I had this problem running NT when I accidentally set another partition (Primary DOS) as active through the NT Disk Administrator. WHen you look at the partitions using FDISK, you will notice more than one drive has an A next to it, noting that it is active. I cleared the problem by using FDISK and seting the first partition (NT) to be 'Active'. Doing so, removed the 'A' on the primary dos partition and allowed me to boot successfully.