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Name: Adam W
Date: November 17, 2002 at 16:45:49 Pacific
Subject: Invalid System Disk
OS: windows 2000 professional
CPU/Ram: celeron 800
Comment:

I defragmented my harddrive which is partitioned into 2 drives, when i restarted my computer which is an IBM Thinkpad, i got a message saying invalid system disk, and i can't get into anything to fix it please help!!


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Response Number 1
Name: j-wolf
Date: November 17, 2002 at 17:41:54 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

Do you have a boot disk?
=floppy=


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Response Number 2
Name: Adam W
Date: November 17, 2002 at 21:17:21 Pacific
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No my laptop doesnt have a floppy drive, but whil i was tinkering around trying to recover windows, it said it was under drive d and it said my personal folder was under c: but it should say the opposite


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Response Number 3
Name: seat6
Date: November 17, 2002 at 22:04:10 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

Try booting with a 98 disk and at the prompt type in fdisk/mbr. Hope it works.


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