Summary: Re-building a 486 Gateway, powers up & is stuck at the invalid system disk, replace the disk and then press any key.... I have flashed the bios alrea...
Summary: After I formatted my c:, when I restarted my comp, it goes through the RAM check and that screen that shows your primary IDE and stuff, and then it sa...
Summary: i have a windows95 computer but every time i start it up it says-diskette drive 1 seek failure then it says to press the f1 key, but when i do that it...
Summary: i (unwisely) used the format c: , when i restarted i get the 'invalid system disk' error message, which means my hard drive i guess. I know the only w...
Summary: I recently bought a computer online and when I got it, it was reformatted to the original setting because they could not sell me the rights to the ope...
Summary: Just built a computer,used a HD I had left over,booted to a flopy start up disk,formated with(/u) command,shoutdown computer.When I started it up agai...
Summary: the message "invalid system disk" appears on my screen while booting. there are no disks in any of the drives. this is a second hand computer so i d...
Summary: Just reformatted the hdd of an older Toshiba laptop, and now I cant even get it to a c prompt. I want to install win95, but it wont recognize the cd-...
Summary: HI I have an old p2 350mhz computer running win98. Now every time I start it before it loads windows it says "Invalid system disk, please replace di...
Summary: I reformatted my Satellite Pro 410CS laptop and wiped out the operating system. When I turn it on I get the error message "invalid system disk" "Repl...
Summary: Hi, I am upgrading my P90 system and just got a formatted 2.5Gb WD hdd. I managed to set it up as slave and it was ok. So I copied the DOS system file...
Summary: I hav ms dos 3.1, i want to reboot it, i hav a start up disk, i would like to kno what i type in at (non system disk or disk error A:>) what command s...
Summary: sorry I wasn't really clear I cant boot off a startup disk because everyone I have tried(6) brings up the message invalid system disk even when I s...
Summary: i have s Hitron 386sx--59 meg HD--2 Megs ram- laptop,condition unknown i get a non system disk error when booted, there is no disk in the floppy drive...
Summary: Thanks all for the many suggestions but every method fails. Did not try Diskgo as it is an overlay program, the online manual is no longer available ...
Summary: Possible problems: 1)Your BIOS and harddrive is fine, but system files are missing 2)Your BIOS is pointing to a wrong partition or drive 3)Your harddr...
Summary: here's what you wanted: Type ALT+F+X to exit Edit What's New for the Windows 98 Startup Disk? The Startup Disk has changed significantly for Windows 9...
Summary: I am trying to update the BIOS on an HP 8760c desktop 733MHz with Windows 98SE (pre-installed). When I follow HP's instructions to create a system dis...
Summary: I am upgrading a computer from "upgraded 95" to Win 95 Ver B. I used the dos 6.2 format c: \u and it seemed to format the hard disk fine. When the f...
Summary: I'd left a floppy disk in my computer and when I turned it on it read the disk and said "invalid system disk, or disk error. Replace and press any key...
Summary: I have been trying to install DOS 6.22 on an old 386. I formatted the c: drive using the built in disk utility. I was able to get an a: prompt by usi...
Summary: I’m up grading a 486dx2 and a Quantum Hard Drive I’m having trouble with fdisk (maybe?) and formatting the Hard Drive. I ran fdisk with a win95 boot d...
Summary: I just got a Toshiba Laptop, second hand. Its supposed to be in excellent working condition. Its a Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDS It has the following...
Summary: OK this is how it all started..... my Win98 started to keep crash on me and then it said the 2 of my sectors on my primary hard disk was damaged and a...
Summary: Calm down...There are several reasons you could get this message. You should check your bios settings to make sure that it can even recognize the dis...
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