Had a problem with my hard drive. It was crashing so I replaced it. Got most of the files off of the old drive onto the new but had problems. I thought that I would restore my system to the factory settings. Everything goes as it's suppose to. I load the CD rom and restart, follow the instructions, it says it's formatting, it's restoring to factory settings, it's finish. Remove the rom and press OK to restart. The system comes back up saying 'invalid system disk, insert system disk and press any key to continue'. I don't understand this. There is not any disks installed anywhere. Maybe it doesn't like the new h drive. I'm thinking about factory setting the old drive and copying it over to the new. Is this a good idea, with the old drive on its last leg? Been farting with this for hours now. Don't know why it's asking for a system disk. Lamar

Sounds like you don't have the system files on the new drive. Use the startup disk to boot up and at the a: prompt type "sys c:" with no quotes. That should put the system info on the disk and should boot if you have everything setup correctly like jumpers on the drive and autodetect the drive in the bios setup. I am assuming that you have both drives installed and the boot drive should have the jumpers set to master and the other to slave.

if this was a low level format you'll have to fdisk and then format it http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/tutorials/42/1/ http://www.hardwarecentral.com/hardwarecentral/tutorials/30/1/ TheGorx.com Windows Help